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Justify, ‘Glucagon is hyperglycemic hormone’.


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Glucagon:

  1. Glucagon is secreted from alpha cells.
  2. Glucagon is a hyperglycemic hormone because it stimulates the breakdown of glycogen in the liver to glucose.
  3. Therefore, it raises the sugar level in the blood.

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