BACKGROUND Although accumulating evidence suggests that Helicobacter pylori plays a role in gastric carcinogenesis, the magnitude of the risk remains uncertain. AIM We aimed to estimate the magnitude of the risk of gastric cancer associated with H. pylori infection by a large case-control study nested within a prospective cohort. Possible effect modification by CagA status, and serum pepsinog...

Isolated porcine pepsinogen A was used for the preparation of polyclonal rabbit and polyclonal chicken anti-pepsinogen A antibodies. Immunochemical properties of both immunoglobulin fractions were compared. The rabbit anti-serum was further purified using immobilized porcine pepsinogen A on magnetic cellulose beads and the resulting anti-pepsinogen A fraction proved to be applicable for the sep...

Conversion of pepsinogen to pepsin at acid pH involves an intramolecular reaction in which the unproteolyzed zymogen cleaves itself. This conclusion is based upon experiments in which pepsinogen, at low concentrations, was activated in the presence of substrate, hemoglobin. Under these conditions, the activation of pepsinogen is independent of pepsinogen concentration, and addition of pepsin do...

Intramolecular pepsinogen activation is inhibited either by pepstatin, a potent pepsin inhibitor, or by purified globin from hemoglobin, a good pepsin substrate. Also, pepsinogen at pH 2 can be bound to a pepstatin-Sepharose column and recovered as native zymogen upon elution in pH 8 buffer. Kinetic studies of the globin inhibition of pepsinogen activation show that globin binds to a pepsinogen...

BACKGROUND Helicobacter pylori (HP) infection is implicated in gastric and extra-gastric diseases. While gastritis-related chronic inflammation represents a known trigger of metabolic disturbances, whether metabolic syndrome (MetS) is affected by gastritis status remains unclear. We aimed to clarify the effect of HP-related gastritis on the risk of MetS. MATERIALS AND METHODS We retrospective...

Determination of the serum pepsinogen level is simple and the method gives consistent results. The serum pepsinogen level remains steady when the stomach is actively secreting pepsin. Age and sex do not greatly affect the serum pepsinogen concentration. Serum pepsinogen levels can be correlated with the histological appearances of the gastric mucosa. The parietal cells appear to be more sensiti...

Intramolecular pepsinogen activation is inhibited either by pepstatin, a potent pepsin inhibitor, or by purified globin from hemoglobin, a good pepsin substrate. Also, pepsinogen at pH 2 can be bound to a pepstatin-Sepharose column and recovered as native zymogen upon elution in pH 8 buffer. Kinetic studies of the globin inhibition of pepsinogen activation show that globin binds to a pepsinogen...

De novo synthesis of pepsinogen was shown in isolated rabbit and human gastric glands after incubation of the glands in a 14C labelled amino acid enriched minimum Eagles medium. At regular intervals, glands and medium were separated and analysed by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Newly synthesised pepsinogen was shown by autoradiography. Incorporation of 14C labelled amino acids was detecte...

Pepsinogen C, also known as progastricsin or pepsinogen II, is an aspartic protease expressed primarily in gastric chief cells. Prior microarray studies of an in vitro model of type 2 cell differentiation indicated that pepsinogen C RNA was highly induced, comparable to surfactant protein RNA induction. Using second-trimester human fetal lung, third-trimester postnatal and adult lung, and a mod...