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Uncommon card · Science
Ghrelin, an Uncommon card
Ghrelin is a hormone primarily produced by enteroendocrine cells of the gastrointestinal tract, especially the stomach, and is also dubbed the "hunger hormone" because it increases the drive to eat.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 75
- DEF
- 89
- Power
- 164
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 58,000
Power 164 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
Ghrelin quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Ghrelin card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Blood levels of ghrelin are highest before meals when hungry, ______ to lower levels after mealtimes.
Answer
returning. Blood levels of ghrelin are highest before meals when hungry, returning to lower levels after mealtimes. From the Ghrelin article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
English as a second or foreign language. English as a second or foreign language 87 · Contact mechanics 81 · Ernest Renan 78 · Ghrelin 75 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Blood levels of ghrelin are highest before meals when hungry, returning to lower levels after mealtimes.
- Ghrelin may help prepare for food intake by increasing gastric motility and stimulating the secretion of gastric acid.
- Ghrelin activates cells in the anterior pituitary gland and hypothalamic arcuate nucleus, including neuropeptide Y neurons that initiate appetite.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Ghrelin article was read about 58,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 75 and blocks with 89: each hit it takes is cut by 36 %.
How to get Ghrelin
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Ghrelin (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
