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To gain insight into this, we aimed to develop a mathematical model of the glucagon kinetics during an oral glucose tolerance test, which is sufficiently simple to be used in the clinical practice. The proposed model included two first-order differential equations -one describing glucagon and the other describing C-peptide in a compartment remote from plasma - and yielded a parameter of possible clinical relevance (i.e., S\n                    <jats:sub>GLUCA<\/jats:sub>\n                    (t), glucagon-inhibition sensitivity to glucose-induced insulin secretion). Model was validated on mean glucagon data derived from the scientific literature, yielding values for S\n                    <jats:sub>GLUCA<\/jats:sub>\n                    (t) ranging from -15.03 to 2.75 (ng of glucagon\u00b7nmol of C-peptide\n                    <jats:sup>-1<\/jats:sup>\n                    ). A further validation on a total of 100 virtual subjects provided reliable results (mean residuals between -1.5 and 1.5 ng\u00b7L\n                    <jats:sup>-1<\/jats:sup>\n                    ) and a negative significant linear correlation (r = -0.74, p &amp;lt; 0.0001, 95% CI: -0.82 \u2013 -0.64) between S\n                    <jats:sub>GLUCA<\/jats:sub>\n                    (t) and the ratio between the areas under the curve of suprabasal remote C-peptide and glucagon. Model reliability was also proven by the ability to capture different patterns in glucagon kinetics. 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