gastrinn.
/ˈɡastrɪn/ Physiology.
A hormone that stimulates gastric secretion.
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1905 J. S. Edkins in Proc. Royal Soc. B. 76 376 The active principle, which may be called ‘gastrin’, is not destroyed by boiling.
1955 Sci. News Let. 7 May 293/1 Gastric juice production is also caused by a hormone called gastrin, formed in the lower third of the stomach, the antrum, when this part of the stomach comes in contact with food.
1968 New Scientist 25 July 199/2 The hormone gastrin..is produced by the wall of the stomach itself.
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