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Definition of Secretagogue
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Secretagogue
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Secretagogue
Literary usage of Secretagogue
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra: Their Own Story by Andrei Maylunas (2005)
"In addition, secretagogue-stimulated enzyme release from pancreatic acini isolated
from rats treated with 50 mg nicotine pellets was significantly higher ..."
2. An Elementary Manual of Physiology for Colleges, Schools of Nursing, of by Russell Burton-Opitz (1922)
"This secretagogue is retained in the duodenal mucosa in a dormant form and requires
the chyme for its normal activation. The name of secretin has been ..."
3. Harmful Non-Indigenous Species in the United States (1994)
"Role of CRF in Adult Animals A powerful tool to investigate the role of a
secretagogue is to study biological responses in mice lacking the gene for this ..."
4. Stress, Gender, and Alcohol-Seeking Behavior edited by Walter A. Hunt, Sam Zakhari (1996)
"Also, depending on though a potent synergistic factor, the stressor, angiotensin
II and vari- has very little ACTH secretagogue ac- ous cytokines and lipid ..."
5. Progressive Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1917)
"... juice secretion (appetite and secretagogue juice) but that the extirpation of
these glands causes a distinct rise in the acidity of the gastric juice. ..."
6. Diagnostic Methods, Chemical, Bacteriological and Microscopical: A Text-book by Ralph Waldo Webster (1920)
"The point of *A secretagogue, called by Edkins gastrin, is believed to be formed
by contact of certain substances with the gastric mucosa. ..."
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