Aspects of carbohydrate metabolism after pinealectomy in normal and pancreatectomized pigeon.

In order to examine the regulatory function in glucidic metabolism of the pigeon pineal gland the authors used the model of complete pancreatectomy associated or not with pinealectomy and treatment with Epifizan. It results that the pineal gland has a hypoglycemic action and partially compensates the lack of the endocrine pancreas.