Abstract:In the goose, alanine and arginine, intravenously or orally administered, act in the same way on pancreatic hormones; they both stimulate insulin and glucagon secretions. Conversely, whereas alanine treatment has no effect on plasma gut GLI, oral arginine stimulates gut GLI secretion. Since stimulation of gut GLI secretion does not occur with i.v. arginine, it may be assumed that this secretion depends on the intestinal transit of arginine and, as already described (Sitbon and Mialhe 1979), of glucose. The res… Show more
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