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POLYPEPTIDE PANCREATIQUE [1 record]

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Record 1 2025-01-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hormones
  • The Pancreas
CONT

Pancreatic polypeptide (PP) is an endogenous peptide hormone secreted by the F cells, also called PP cells, of the islets of Langerhans of pancreas, mostly postprandially ...The primary role of PP is to modulate digestion of food by inhibition of gastric emptying as well as biliary secretion ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Hormones
  • Pancréas
CONT

Les îlots de Langerhans. [...] Un dense réseau de capillaires entouré par une mince couche de collagène irrigue ces îlots, qui contiennent quatre différentes sortes de cellules endocrines [...] quatre cellules sécrètent respectivement quatre hormones : le glucagon, l'insuline, la somatostatine et le polypeptide pancréatique. [...] les cellules PP, les moins étudiées de l'îlot, sécrètent le polypeptide pancréatique.

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