Search: Dictionary All Posts

Store Your Knowledge at the Brain Bank!

Login / Register - It's free!

motilin Definition

Cancel

motilin

noun(mo-til-in)

a polypeptide hormone secreted by the small intestine that increases gastrointestinal motility and stimulates the production of pepsin

Words Related to motilin!

nle, porcine, synthetic, exogenous, immunoreactive, natural, intestinal, human, induced, stimulates, released, increases, release, circulating, effect, levels, gastrin, effects, action, activity, polypeptide, infusion, somatostatin, radioimmunoassay, response, role, localization, motility, concentrations, dogs, relationship, man, cholecystokinin, administration, increase, actions, emptying, sequence, source, pancreatic, secretin, purification, complex, acth, angiotensin, calcitonin, cck, corticotropin, folate, fsh, gh, glucagon, gnrh, hcg, insulin, lh, trh, tsh, vip,

motilin Examples by Brain Bank Users