General ⇒ 'Hiding' items in glossary?

[mcclur51]

I am working on my thesis in microbiology, using LaTeX for typesetting and the glossaries package to create an (extensive) glossary of biochemical terms used. My problem involves capitalizing my entries.

For example:
PTEN is short for 'phosphatase and tensin homolog'

When I use the acronym in sentence A I want 'phosphatase' capitalized because it starts the sentence (ie. Phosphatase and tensin homolog (PTEN) is a very interesting gene). However, in sentence B I don't want 'phosphatase' capitalized (ie. We observed changes in phosphatase and tensin homolog (PTEN) expression).

I know that it shouldn't matter because the second usage will just be the acronym. Unfortunately, the thesis has many sections and the glossary definitions must be reset before each section. Thus, sentence A and sentence B are in two different sections.

Question: Is there a way to have a glossary entry that is used in the body of the document, but does not show up in the glossary? (I could then have PTEN1 and PTEN2, but only have PTEN defined once in the glossary)
OR is there a command to capitalize just the first letter of a defined acronym?

Thanks for any help!

[nlct]

OR is there a command to capitalize just the first letter of a defined acronym?

Use \Gls instead of \gls

Regards
Nicola Talbot