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C-peptide can be used as a measure of endogenous insulin secretion in insulin treated diabetes mellitus.
Pancreatic p cell secretory activity was measured in 11 patients with insulin dependent and 2 patients with non insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus by means of serum C-peptide response to 1 mg of glucagon subcutaneously.
Serum C-peptide was increased to near normal range in the remission phase and... |