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    Pancreatic polypeptide (PP) is a polypeptide secreted by PP cells in the endocrine pancreas. It regulates pancreatic secretion activities, and also impacts...
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    Pancreatic polypeptide cells (PP cells), or formerly as gamma cells (γ-cells), or F cells, are cells in the pancreatic islets (Islets of Langerhans) of...
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    Pancreas (redirect from Pancreatic)
    somatostatin and pancreatic polypeptide. As a part of the digestive system, it functions as an exocrine gland secreting pancreatic juice into the duodenum...
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    Peptide (redirect from Polypeptide)
    NPY (NeuroPeptide Y) PYY (Peptide YY) APP (Avian Pancreatic Polypeptide) PPY Pancreatic PolYpeptide Proopiomelanocortin (POMC) peptides Enkephalin pentapeptides...
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    insulin and amylin (≈70%) PP cells (gamma cells or F cells) producing pancreatic polypeptide (<5%) Delta cells producing somatostatin (<10%) Epsilon cells producing...
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    Amylin, or islet amyloid polypeptide (IAPP), is a 37-residue peptide hormone. It is co-secreted with insulin from the pancreatic β-cells in the ratio of...
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    there is no secretion, or the quantity or type of products, such as pancreatic polypeptide (PPoma), chromogranin A, and neurotensin, do not cause a clinical...
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    Gastric inhibitory polypeptide (GIP), also known as glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide is an inhibiting hormone of the secretin family of hormones...
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    Pancreatic polypeptide receptor 1, also known as Neuropeptide Y receptor type 4, is a protein that in humans is encoded by the PPYR1 gene. Pancreatic...
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  • an antipsychotic medication Pancreatic polypeptide, a polypeptide secreted by PP cells PP cell or pancreatic polypeptide cell pro parte, abbreviated p...
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    YY3-36 (PYY) is a linear polypeptide consisting of 34 amino acids with structural homology to NPY and pancreatic polypeptide. The PP-fold motif is found...
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    Cholecystokinin (CCK) Gastrin Ghrelin Glucagon Glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP) Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) Growth hormone Follicle-stimulating...
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    and pancreatic polypeptide. During the early stages of fetal development, the number of pancreatic alpha cells outnumbers the number of pancreatic beta...
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    either don't secrete, or the quantity or type of products such as pancreatic polypeptide (PPoma), chromogranin A, and neurotensin do not cause a clinical...
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    other gastrointestinal disorders, and pulmonary disease. Calcitonin is a polypeptide hormone of 32 amino acids, with a molecular weight of 3454.93 daltons...
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    Vasoactive intestinal peptide, also known as vasoactive intestinal polypeptide or VIP, is a peptide hormone that is vasoactive in the intestine. VIP is...
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  • glucagon; delta cells, which make somatostatin; F cells which make pancreatic polypeptide, and D1 cells, about which little is known. The names of the cell...
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  • vasoconstriction, Platelet Aggregation 11 Amylin (or Islet Amyloid Polypeptide) IAPP Peptide pancreas pancreatic β-cells amylin receptor slowing down gastric emptying...
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    PTH Gonadal axis Pancreas Glucagon Insulin Amylin Somatostatin Pancreatic polypeptide Pineal gland Melatonin N,N-Dimethyltryptamine 5-Methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine...
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    translation of this gene yielding a high molecular mass 151 amino acid polypeptide known as preproANP. The preprohormone is activated via post-translational...
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    sphincter. Other functions of motilin include increasing the release of pancreatic polypeptide and somatostatin. Erythromycin and related antibiotics act as non-peptide...
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  • known as pancreatogenic diabetes) is diabetes that comes secondary to pancreatic diseases, involving the exocrine and digestive functions of the pancreas...
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    EGF has been found to be stimulated by testosterone.[citation needed] Polypeptide growth factors include: EGF acts by binding with high affinity to epidermal...
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    Follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) is a gonadotropin, a glycoprotein polypeptide hormone. FSH is synthesized and secreted by the gonadotropic cells of...
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    receptors on certain types of cells. GH is a 191-amino acid, single-chain polypeptide that is synthesized, stored and secreted by somatotropic cells within...
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    PTH Gonadal axis Pancreas Glucagon Insulin Amylin Somatostatin Pancreatic polypeptide Pineal gland Melatonin N,N-Dimethyltryptamine 5-Methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine...
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    Glucagon (category Pancreatic hormones)
    belongs to the secretin family of hormones. Glucagon is a 29-amino acid polypeptide. Its primary structure in humans is: NH2-His-Ser-Gln-Gly-Thr-Phe-Thr...
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  • glucose homeostasis and gastric motility Glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide possesses an acute influence on food intake through its effects on adipocytes...
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    opposite effect. Other hormones produced include somatostatin, pancreatic polypeptide, amylin and ghrelin. Rare and slow growing carcinoid and non-carcinoid...
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    which secrete somatostatin and the PP-cells which secrete pancreatic polypeptide. Pancreatic progenitor cells have been shown to arise from cells originating...
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