“…Secretion studies conducted with pancreatectomized patients revealed contradictory results. So Barnes and Bloom (1976) did not find any glucagon in such patients, whereas Mtiller, Brennan, Tan and Aoki (1974) and Mtiller, Berger, Suter, Cuppers, Reiter, Wyss, Berchtold, Schmidt, Assal and Renold (1979) and Damman, Kiihnau, Drost and Schreiber (1978) found normal levels of immunoreactive glucagon using the pancreas specific antibody K 30.…”