Glycine-extended gastrin enhances somatostatin release from cultured rabbit fundic D-cells [v1; ref status: indexed, http://f1000r.es/8n]

The role of the peptide hormone gastrin in stimulating gastric acid secretion is well established.Mature amidated gastrin is processed from larger peptide precursor forms.Increasingly these processing intermediates, such as glycine-extended gastrin (G-Gly) and progastrin, have been shown to have biological activities of their own, often separate an

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Blood microbiota dysbiosis is associated with the onset of cardiovascular events in a large general population: the D.E.S.I.R. study.

AimWe recently described a human blood microbiome and a connection between this microbiome and the onset of diabetes.The aim of the current study was to assess the association between blood microbiota and incident cardiovascular disease.Methods and resultsD.E.S.I.R.is a longitudinal study with the primary aim of describing the natural history of th

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