This study is aimed to see the effect of pregnancy on pepsinogen secretion and its possible protective role against ulceration. Fifty pregnant women without symptoms ofpeptic ulcer disease were studied for serum pepsinogen level. These levels were compared with those of a control group composed of age-matched, nonpregnaflt healthy women. An elevated level ofserum pepsinogen wasfound during preg...

Gastric epithelial cells differentiate throughout the third postnatal week in rats, and become completely functional by weaning time. When suckling is interrupted by early weaning (EW), cell proliferation and differentiation change in the gastric mucosa, and regulatory mechanisms might involve corticosterone activity. Here we used EW and RU486 (glucocorticoid receptor antagonist) to investigate...

To determine the role of the adenylate cyclase system in potentiation of enzyme secretion, we used cholera toxin to activate adenylate cyclase before examining the effects of agents on chief cell cAMP and pepsinogen secretion. Dispersed chief cells were obtained from guinea pig stomach by fractionation of mucosal cells on a Percoll gradient. Incubation of cells with 100 nM cholera toxin for 90 ...

Background Gastric cancer is the fifth most common malignancy in the world with almost one million new cases annually. Helicobacter pylori infection causes 89% of all gastric cancers. Premalignant lesions (atrophy and intestinal metaplasia) develop after several decades of inflammation. Secondary prevention with gastroscopy is possible, but it is costly and has a low compliance rate. Alternativ...

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...

AIMS AND BACKGROUND The role of serum pepsinogen level and Helicobacter pylori infection in esophageal carcinoma remains controversial. It may be a risk or protective factor, or without association with esophageal carcinoma. We prospectively examined associations between serum pepsinogen status, H pylori infection and the risk of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma in the Chinese population. M...

Serum pepsinogen I, serum gastrin concentration, and inflammatory scores were measured in a population of 71 children undergoing upper gastrointestinal endoscopy for investigation of upper abdominal pain. Forty four were initially colonised with Helicobacter pylori. The indices were measured before treatment (in 71 children), one month (in 41 children), and six months (in 21 children) after sto...

A novel strategy for the controlled release and localization of bioactive peptides within digestive and immunity-related enzymes was developed. The N-terminus of porcine pepsinogen A was fused to the basic amino acid-rich region of bovine lactoferricin B termed 'tLfcB', a cationic antimicrobial/anticancer peptide. Recombinant tLfcB-porcine pepsinogen A was expressed in soluble form in Escherich...

BACKGROUND Detection limit challenges associated with measuring low-abundance protein biomarkers can be addressed with hybrid immunoaffinity-mass spectrometric assays, such as antipeptide antibody capture followed by liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS). Popular assay formats use magnetic bead-based immunoaffinity enrichment and nanoflow LC-MS/MS or high-flow immunoaffinity...

Studies of optical rotatory dispersion (ORD) and circular dichroism (CD) are reported on pepsinogen, carbamyl-, and succinylpepsinogen. From the ORD measurements in the wave length range of 600 to 300 rnp as functions of urea, temperature, and pH, it was shown that the macromolecular conformation of the three proteins differs markedly. On replacing the e-NH2 groups of the lysine residues of pep...