Endocrine Abstracts

AimGlucagon stimulation test (GST) is used to assess hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) and GH axis with an incompletely defined mechanism. Glucagon has physiological effects on body weight and metabolic parameters and some of these effects are suggested to occur via fibroblast growth factor-21 (FGF-21) which is a circulating hepatokine. FGF-21 was also shown to affect HPA and GH axis in rodents. The aim of the present study was assess if glucagon acted...