Chronic Exposure to GLP-1 Increases GLP-1 Synthesis and Release in a Pancreatic Alpha Cell Line (α-TC1): Evidence of a Direct Effect of GLP-1 on Pancreatic Alpha Cells

• Salvatore Piro ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Salvatore Piro, Loriana G. Mascali

  Affiliation Department of Clinical and Molecular BioMedicine, University of Catania, Garibaldi-Nesima Hospital, Catania, Italy

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• Loriana G. Mascali ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Salvatore Piro, Loriana G. Mascali

  Affiliation Department of Clinical and Molecular BioMedicine, University of Catania, Garibaldi-Nesima Hospital, Catania, Italy

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• Francesca Urbano,

  Affiliation Department of Clinical and Molecular BioMedicine, University of Catania, Garibaldi-Nesima Hospital, Catania, Italy

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• Agnese Filippello,

  Affiliation Department of Clinical and Molecular BioMedicine, University of Catania, Garibaldi-Nesima Hospital, Catania, Italy

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• Roberta Malaguarnera,

  Affiliation Endocrinology, Department of Health Sciences, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy

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• Salvatore Calanna,

  Affiliation Department of Clinical and Molecular BioMedicine, University of Catania, Garibaldi-Nesima Hospital, Catania, Italy

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• Agata M. Rabuazzo,

  Affiliation Department of Clinical and Molecular BioMedicine, University of Catania, Garibaldi-Nesima Hospital, Catania, Italy

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• Francesco Purrello

  * E-mail: fpurrell@unict.it

  Affiliation Department of Clinical and Molecular BioMedicine, University of Catania, Garibaldi-Nesima Hospital, Catania, Italy

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