Beyond its primary function in digestion, the stomach secretes various peptides believed to influence numerous physiological processes within the organism. Thes ...

It’s a simple blood test that checks for excess gastrin production. Gastrin is a hormone that your stomach makes to fuel the release of gastric acid. Your body needs this to digest and absorb ...

Scientists have studied the role of Helicobacter infection in the development of stomach cancer, and found that the hormone gastrin, which stimulates secretion of gastric acid, plays a key role in ...

A radioiodine-immunoassay technic was used to measure fasting serum gastrin levels in four patients with the Zollinger-Ellison syndrome and 24 patients without gastrointestinal diseases.

Gastrin concentrations in serum samples obtained at four-hour intervals during a 24-hour period also remained constantly and substantially elevated, varying from 3900 to the lowest value of 2650 ...

Gastrin is a potent acid secretagogue that is released from "G" cells in the antrum of the stomach and the duodenum in response to a meal. The feedback inhibition for gastrin is acid present in ...

This is a summary of a preprint research study, "The Predictive Role of Serum Gastrin-17 for Oral Mucositis in Head and Neck Carcinoma Patients Receiving Radiotherapy," led by Congye Wu of Nanjing ...

Gastrin acts as a growth factor for pancreatic cancer. We describe the first study of the antigastrin immunogen G17DT in pancreatic cancer. Our aims were to determine the antibody response, safety, ...