Pancreatic polypeptide (PP) was chemically characterized in great detail as an impurity in
insulin preparations long before anything was known about its possible role as a hormone …

• Pancreatic polypeptide (PP), a 36-amino acid peptide, may function as an important
feedback inhibitor of pancreatic secretion after a meal. It arises from both islet and acinar …

The effects of somatostatin on diarrhea and on small intestinal flow of water and electrolytes
(slow-maker perfusion technique) in a patient with pancreatic cholera are reported …

Somatostatin-like immunoreactivity (SLI) has been found throughout the gastrointestinal tract
in all species examined. In the stomach it is mainly present in endocrine-type D-cells …

During the last 10 to 15 years, the list of peptides present in the mammalian gastrointestinal
tract and pancreas has grown almost exponentially, from basically three peptides (secretin …

Schusdziarra V, Schmid R. Physiological and pathophysiological aspects of somatostatin.
Somatostatin is found in the D-cells of organs that are exclusively responsible for the …

Although the study of endocrinology may have begun in 1902 with that discovery of
“secretin,” half a century passed before the implications of the GI hormones in both health …

Pancreatitis is a disease with increasing incidence which can be divided into an acute and a
chronic form. In both acute and chronic pancreatitis, changes in plasma concentration of …

The effects of somatostatin and bombesin on the choleresis produced by intraduodenal acid
infusion were evaluated in dogs. Because of the documented effect of these agents on …

Gastric acid and pepsin secretion and serum gastrin concentrations were measured in nine
patients with uncomplicated duodenal ulcer (DU) and 10 normal controls in the fasting state …