Medical Definition of Gastrins
1. A family of gastrointestinal peptide hormones that excite the secretion of gastric juices. They may also occur in the central nervous system where they are presumed to be neurotransmitters. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gastrins
Literary usage of Gastrins
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (1903)
"ffect of Big and Little gastrins on Pancreatic and Gastric Secretion (40322) LGE E.
VALENZUELA, ROLAND BUGAT, AND MORTON I. GROSSMAN VA Wadsworth Hospital ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1916)
"... the phase which we call chemical late in digestion and which we attribute to
secretagogues, hormones, the formation and absorption of certain gastrins, ..."
3. Diseases of the nervous system by Smith Ely Jelliffe, William Alanson White (1917)
"... of activity of the vegetative nervous system concerns itself with the
gastro-intestinal ferments, and the specific secretions or hormones (gastrins, ..."
4. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (1903)
"ffect of Big and Little gastrins on Pancreatic and Gastric Secretion (40322) LGE E.
VALENZUELA, ROLAND BUGAT, AND MORTON I. GROSSMAN VA Wadsworth Hospital ..."
5. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1916)
"... the phase which we call chemical late in digestion and which we attribute to
secretagogues, hormones, the formation and absorption of certain gastrins, ..."
6. Diseases of the nervous system by Smith Ely Jelliffe, William Alanson White (1917)
"... of activity of the vegetative nervous system concerns itself with the
gastro-intestinal ferments, and the specific secretions or hormones (gastrins, ..."
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