Look up: Secretin

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   Secretin
   Secretin is a hormone produced by the small intestine in vertebrates that stimulates the production of digestive secretions.
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   secretin
   [n] - peptic hormone produced by the mucous lining of the small intestine
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   Secretin
   Secretin is a gastrointestinal hormone that helps promote digestion of food. Some people believe it is a useful treatment for autism. However there is strong evidence to show that it is ineffective.
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   Secretin
   Secretin: A hormone made by glands in the small intestine that acts to stimulate pancreatic secretions. Commercially available secretin is either porcine (pigs) secretin or a synthesized form of human secretin. Secretin is of special historic interest because the word 'hormone' was coined in 1902 by the English physiologists Wm. M. Bayliss and Erne ...
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   secretin
   Peptide hormone of gastrointestinal tract (27 residues) found in the mucosal cells of duodenum. Stimulates pancreatic, pepsin and bile secretion, inhibits gastric acid secretion. Considerable homology with gastric inhibitory polypeptide, vasoactive intestinal peptide and glucagon.
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   secretin
   <hormone> Peptide hormone of gastrointestinal tract (27 residues) found in the mucosal cells of duodenum. Stimulates pancreatic, pepsin and bile secretion, inhibits gastric acid secretion. Considerable homology with gastric inhibitory peptide, vasoactive intestinal peptide and glucagon. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
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   secretin
   noun peptic hormone produced by the mucous lining of the small intestine; can stimulate secretion by the pancreas and liver
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   Secretin
   `Secretin` is a peptide hormone produced in the S cells of the duodenum in the crypts of Lieberkühn. Its primary effect is to regulate the pH of the duodenal contents via the control of gastric acid secretion and buffering with bicarbonate. It was the first hormone to be discovered.
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   secretin
   (se-kre´tin) a hormone secreted by the mucosa of the duodenum and jejunum when acid chyme enters the intestine; carried by the blood, it stimulates the secretion of pancreatic juice and, to a lesser extent, bile and intestinal secretion.
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    secretin
    a digestive hormone secreted by the wall of the upper part of the small intestine (the duodenum). Its secretion is stimulated when acid from the ... [7 related articles]
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    secretin
    A hormone, formed by the epithelial cells of the duodenum under the stimulus of acid contents from the stomach, that incites secretion of pancreatic juice; used as a diagnostic aid in the diagnosis of pancreatic exocrine disease and as an adjunct in obtaining desquamated pancreatic cells for cytological examination. Syn: oxykrinin [secrete + -in]
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    secretin
    Secretin molecule. Source: PubChem A peptide hormone produced in the S cells of the duodenum. Secretin is released in response to low duodenal pH caused by the presence of hydrochloric acid from the stomach, and stimulates the secretion of bile from the liver, alkaline pancreatic juice from the...
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