These studies suggest that differential proglucagon processing between alpha-cells imparts enough dissimilarities between cells to characterize these cells as distinct subpopulations of alpha-cells, and therefore, these studies underscore the possibility that alterations in the proportions of alpha-cell subpopulations that produce either glucagon or GLP-1 or both hormones can have important effects on islet function ( Figure 3 )
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