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Definition of Secretagogues
1. secretagogue [n] - See also: secretagogue
Lexicographical Neighbors of Secretagogues
Literary usage of Secretagogues
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)
"Bradykinin was the most potent of these secretagogues and methacholine the ...
All three secretagogues were much less effective than nicotinic stimulation. ..."
2. Diet in Health and Disease by Julius Friedenwald, John Ruhräh (1919)
"Edkins is of the opinion that the secretagogues, whether present in the food or
formed during digestion, act upon the pyloric mucous membrane and form a ..."
3. Diet in Health and Disease by Julius Friedenwald, John Ruhräh (1913)
"Edkins is of the opinion that the secretagogues, whether present in the food or
formed during digestion, act upon the pyloric mucous ..."
4. Human Physiology: A Text-book for High Schools and Colleges by Percy Goldthwait Stiles (1916)
"If the dextrins are secretagogues the fact is of interest because it indicates a
... Foods, like eggs which contain no secretagogues when undigested, ..."
5. A Brief Introduction to the General Principles of Therapeutics by Francis H. McCrudden (1917)
"and milk do not contain these substances, but the first products of digestion
do; so that as soon as digestion starts, secretagogues are produced which ..."
6. Stress, Gender, and Alcohol-Seeking Behavior edited by Walter A. Hunt, Sam Zakhari (1996)
"... ACTH secretagogues are also stimulated by this cytokine. At high doses, IL-6
also stimulates peripheral elevations of AVP, presumably as a result of a ..."
7. The Control of Hunger in Health and Disease by Anton Julius Carlson (1916)
"It is highly probable that the products of this digestion yield gastric secretagogues,
just as in the case of some of the digestion products of the food ..."
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