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- noun A
synthetic polypeptide that has effects likegastrin when givenparenterally .
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The observation of Gibbs et al (46, 47) that injection of purified CCK or CCK-8 evoked satiety, although pentagastrin and secretin did not, has suggested negative feed back from the gastrointestinal tract as the causative mechanism.
Nobel Lecture Radioimmunoassay: A Probe For Fine Structure Of Biologic Systems 1977
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