CCK
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Ngene Gituku, chairman of the CCK board, said that Kenya had lost a "brilliant lawyer with an incisive and highly analytical mind".
From BBC • Sep. 26, 2013
CCK also travels to the brain, where it can act as a hunger suppressant.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
CCK stimulates the release of pancreatic lipase from the pancreas and stimulates the contraction of the gallbladder to release stored bile salts into the intestine.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
"They've become a menace to consumers from both the safety and security perspective," CCK head Francis Wangusi told the BBC.
From BBC • Oct. 5, 2012
CCK-mimicking compounds trigger attacks in panic-disorder patients but not in normal volunteers, so a likely candidate for a new panic-disorder pill would be a drug that blocks CCK.
From Time Magazine Archive
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