"Pentagastrin" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A synthetic pentapeptide that has effects like gastrin when given parenterally. It stimulates the secretion of gastric acid, pepsin, and intrinsic factor, and has been used as a diagnostic aid.
| Descriptor ID |
D010418
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D06.472.317.413.593 D12.644.456.716
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| Concept/Terms |
Pentagastrin- Pentagastrin
- Gastrin Pentapeptide
- Pentapeptide, Gastrin
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1997 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 1999 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Pentagastrin" by people in Profiles.
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Citric acid as the test meal for the 13C-urea breath test. Am J Gastroenterol. 1999 May; 94(5):1214-7.
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Cure of Helicobacter pylori infection improves gastric acid secretion in patients with corpus gastritis. Scand J Gastroenterol. 1997 Jul; 32(7):664-8.
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Unresolved issues in the genesis and management of multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2. Horm Metab Res. 1997 Mar; 29(3):135-7.
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The abnormal pentagastrin test. Clin Endocrinol (Oxf). 1996 Feb; 44(2):221-2.
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A case of pseudohypoparathyroidism type 1 associated with gonadotropin resistance and hypercalcitoninaemia. Jpn J Med. 1988 May; 27(2):207-10.
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Gastric acid secretion in patients with typhoid fever. Gut. 1985 May; 26(5):491-4.
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Famotidine, a new H2-receptor antagonist. Effect on parietal, nonparietal, and pepsin secretion in man. Dig Dis Sci. 1985 Apr; 30(4):308-12.
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Effects of L-dopa and bromocriptine on calcitonin secretion in medullary thyroid carcinoma. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 1980 Oct; 51(4):806-9.
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Establishment of a calcitonin-producing rat medullary thyroid carcinoma cell line. II. Secretory studies of the tumor and cells in culture. Endocrinology. 1980 Aug; 107(2):516-23.
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Natural history of familial medullary thyroid carcinoma: effect of a program for early diagnosis. N Engl J Med. 1978 Nov 02; 299(18):980-5.