fasting serum gastrin

fasting serum gastrin
measurement of the levels of gastrin in blood serum after the patient has fasted for 12 hours, so that presence of food is not a factor; it is markedly increased in conditions such as Zollinger-Ellison syndrome and G cell hyperplasia.

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