KROK 1 2018 – Question 154 · KROK (Medicine) · Physiology
A patient has undergone surgical removal of the pylorus. Decreased secretion of the following hormone can be expected:
- A. Histamine
- B. Cholecystokinin
- C. Gastrin
- D. Secretin
- E. Gastric inhibitory polypeptide
Hint
Ask which endocrine cells are concentrated in the distal portion of the stomach that was resected, and remember that several gut hormones come from the intestine rather than the stomach.
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