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Secretion

Secretion | Secretions | Secre

Secretion meaning

Any substance that is secreted by an organism. | The act of secreting a substance, especially from a gland.

Example sentences (20)

Circadian prolactin secretion begins in the late afternoon, especially in women, and is subsequently augmented by sleep-induced secretion, to peak in the middle of the night.

Glucocorticoids secreted from the adrenal cortex work to inhibit CRH secretion by the hypothalamus, which in turn decreases anterior pituitary secretion of ACTH.

Production and secretion are largely independent; prepared insulin is stored awaiting secretion.

B. Breve helps in the breakdown of sugars and secretion of lactic acid.

Calcium involves various bodily functions, including blood clotting, enzyme activity, and hormone secretion.

Do not pop drugs like Pantocid, which are proton pump inhibitors and stop acid secretion in the stomach.

I tried the viral £24 snail secretion gel adored by celebrities that's said to illuminate your skin CORSX’s Power Essence is made out of 96% snail mucin filtrate.

The drug binds to and activates the GLP-1 receptor, stimulating secretion of the blood sugar-regulating hormone, insulin.

These shared genes play a role in insulin secretion or inflammation in the brain, pancreas or fat tissue, with changes in these biological processes potentially explaining how depression increases type 2, they suggested.

It’s caused when bile acids produced by the liver are not processed properly, so excess bile passes into the colon, stimulating salts and water secretion, and leading to watery diarrhoea.

Postmortem results showed that death was due to aspiration of secretion due to low oxygen supply as a result of head injuries.

The carboxylic acids were the result of the secretion of sebum, an oily substance that protects the skin.

Butyrate—an SCFA produced when gut bacteria ferment fiber—activates the secretion of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF).5 has been linked to reduced levels of BDNF.

The large ‘rocks’ appeared to resemble highly prized ambergris, a rare secretion from whales.

They especially analyzed the honeydew, the sugar-containing secretion of many sap-sucking insects, by means of chemical analyses and isotope labeling of individual chemical compounds.

Naturopathic physician Jonathan E. Prousky provides convincing evidence that the lack of vitamin B3 (niacin) is another major cause of poor stomach acid secretion.

Sometimes in that secretion, the female mosquito leaves behind a dangerous pathogen, which is how dangerous diseases are transmitted.

Temporal gland secretion is visible as a dark stain behind and slightly above the eye.

The researchers worked with a very similar bacterium, M. smegmatis, which is used in research as a model to study M. tuberculosis and that shares the same secretion system with it.

Adhesin uses a dedicated secretion pathway, with several steps occurring in the cytosol before its translocation across the membrane.