an "alternative" or biomedical treatment for autism. Secretin is a natural hormone that acts as a neuro-transmitter. It is present in the gut, and signals the pancreas to release digestive enzymes when food enters the small intestine. It is also present in the brain. Secretin is currently being studied by Repligen: http://www.repligen.com
(si kreet´ in) • A peptide hormone secreted by the upper region of the small intestine when acidic chyme is present. Stimulates the pancreatic duct to secrete bicarbonate ions.
(see-CREET-in) A hormone produced by cells in the duodenum wall that target the pancreas to secrete bicarbonate-rich pancreatic juice.
A hormone made in the small intestines that aids in digestion.
a gut hormone that has been used in controversial treatment of autism. There is no scientific proof that it works for Autism. Dr. Wendy Roberts at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto is starting a study on the drug.
peptic hormone produced by the mucous lining of the small intestine; can stimulate secretion by the pancreas and liver
a food- activated hormone released from the wall of the small intestine which stimulates release of digestive juices
hormone made in the duodenum that causes the stomach to produce pepsin, the liver to make bile, and the pancreas to produce a digestive juice.
hormone produced in the duodenum that stimulates alkaline secretions by the pancreas and inhibits gastric emptying.
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 Ernest H. Starling in connection with their discovery of secretin, the first hormone ever found. See the entire definition of Secretin
A hormone which stimulates stomach secretions such as pepsinogen and acid. It also stimulates bicarbonate secretion from the liver and the pancreas.
A hormone made in duodenum. Causes the stomach to make pepsin, the liver to make bile, and the pancreas to make a digestive juice..
A hormone, secreted by the duodenum, that stimulates the production of buffers by the pancreas and inhibits gastric activity.
Digestive juices produced in the stomach, duodenum, and pancreas.
a hormone produced by the duodenum in response to food and juices from the stomach; it causes the secretion of juices by the pancreas.
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 p H of the duodenal contents via the control of gastric acid secretion and buffering with bicarbonate. It was the first hormone ever discovered.