Incretory function of the pancreas in alcoholic liver diseases
Loginov, A.S.; Vysotskaia, R.A.
Voprosy Meditsinskoi Khimii 34(1): 105-109
1988
ISSN/ISBN: 0042-8809 PMID: 3285585 Document Number: 312996
Impairments in pancreas incretory functions were detected in patients with chronic liver diseases of alcohol etiology (lipid dystrophy, cirrhosis) after radioimmunologic examination of immunoreactive insulin, C-peptide and glucagon in blood under these conditions and during glucose-tolerance test. Mechanisms of resistance to insulin and to hyperinsulinemia under conditions of these pathological states are considered. Role of liver tissue has been emphasized in maintaining of blood pancreatic hormones level.