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Acute effects of C-peptide on gastric emptying in longstanding type 1 diabetes

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Gastric emptying (GE) of a solid (100 g beef) and liquid (150 ml 10 % dextrose) meal was measured in eight patients with type 1 diabetes during intravenous infusion of C-peptide (6pmol/kg/ min) or isotonic saline. C-peptide had no effect on either solid or liquid GE.

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  1. NH&MRC/Diabetes Australia Senior Research, Fellow Dept. of Medicine, University of Adelaide Royal Adelaide Hospital North Terrace, Adelaide (SA) 5000, Australia

    Julie E. Stevens BPharm (Hons), BSc, Antonietta Russo BSc, MMSc,  Michael Horowitz MBBS, PhD, FRACP &  Karen L. Jones Dip App Sci, PhD

  2. International Diabetes Institute, Caulfield (VIC), Australia

    Carol A. Delaney BSc (Hons), PhD

  3. Dept. of Nuclear Medicine, PET and Bone Densitometry, Adelaide (SA), Australia

    Peter J. Collins BSc, MSc

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Stevens, J.E., Russo, A., Delaney, C.A. et al. Acute effects of C-peptide on gastric emptying in longstanding type 1 diabetes. Clin Auton Res 16, 55–57 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10286-006-0308-9

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