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F Fallucca

Publications and source records attributed to F Fallucca.

At least 73 records · Page 4Linked to original sources
PubMed1977

Amniotic fluid insulin and glucagon in normal pregnancy and pregnancy complicated by rhesus isoimmunization.

Immunoreactive insulin (IRI) and immunoreactive glucagon (IRG) were determined in the amniotic fluid from 28 rhesus isoimmunized pregnancies with moderately affected fetuses and from 15 normal pregnancies; in umbilical arterial plasma from nine newborn infants with rhesus haemolytic disease of moderate degree and from 19 normal infants; in plasma from their respective mothers at delivery; and in the urine of 13 normal infants at birth. Levels of IRI and IRG in amniotic fluid from rhesus cases were not different from those of normal pregnancies. IRG was detected in the first voided neonatal urine.

Adult↗
PubMed1976

Response of islet cell tumors to enterohormones.

The insulin response to oral glucose, tolbutamide, arginine, pancreozymin and cerulein was studied in a group of subjects with insuloma and a group of normal control subjects. The same parameters were studied in a small number of cases after administration of secretin and gastrin. The glucagon response (IRG) to arginine, pancreozymin and cerulein was also studied. In subjects with insulomas plasma IRI values after oral glucose, tolbutamide and pancreozymin, starting from elevated basal levels, reached high absolute levels though the increase above basal levels did not differ significantly from normal. After cerulein plasma IRI values increased in some insuloma patients but not in normal subjects. After arginine the plasma IRI increase above basal levels was significantly lower than normal in patients with insulomas. The glucagon response to arginine was normal in the patients with insulomas; these patients showed a clearcut glucagon response to cerulein and a very irregular response after pancreozymin.

Adenoma, Islet Cell↗
PubMed1975

[Clucagon].

Only in 1969 reliable information about glucagon and its different forms was acquired. Some factors are already known to increase or diminish the production both of pancreatic glucagon (nesidioglucagon) and of enteroglucagon. There are various methods for their study. In the present report some results are dealt with that may be of clinical interest, and the possibility of measuring those two kinds of hormones is pointed out as a diagnostic help in reactive and functional hypoglycemic syndromes. Information about glucagon in clinical medicine, however, is still -- on the whole -- scarce and insufficient to throw light on its several physiological and physiopathological aspects.

Blood Glucose↗