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Query: UMLS:C0017168 (gastroesophageal reflux disease)
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Three types of endocrine cells (G cells producing gastrin-17, D cells producing somatostatin, and GER cells containing endorphine) in the mucous membrane of the stomach antrum from 14 patients with duodenal ulcer and 10 healthy persons were studied. Biopsies were fixed in a modified Bowen solution and imbedded into paraffin. The slides were stained by Grimelins' method and immunohistochemically with the use of the peroxidase-antiperoxidase method. The number of cells per 1 mm2 of the mucous membrane was counted. Patients with ulcer have shown the increased number of G and GER cells and decreased number of D cells. Besides, pronounced G cell hyperplasia with a relative decrease of GER cells and a marked decrease of Grimelins-positive cells (as compared to other patients with duodenal ulcer) were observed in 3 out of 14 ulcer patients. The authors conclude that the alteration of the balance between antagonistic hormone effects results in the hypersecretory syndrome that plays the main role in the pathogenesis of duodenal ulcer.
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PMID:[Gastric endocrine cells containing endorphin, gastrin and somatostatin in duodenal ulcer]. 614 55

Cytochemically peroxidase activity has been examined on the light optical and ultrastructural levels in blood granulocytes of the rabbits after a single (5 mg/kg) and multiple (1 and 5 mg/kg every 24 hrs during 4 weeks) administrations of hydrocortisone. Under electron microscope peroxidase activity was detected in the blood of intact rabbits into typical primary granules (TPG) and small polymorphic granules (SPG) of neutrophils as well as into specific granules of basophils sometimes in perinuclear space and GER channels. 6 h after hydrocortisone injection peroxidase activity in neutrophils increased, the reaction product in both kinds of cytoplasmic granules was electron denser than in the controls. After multiple hydrocortisone (1 mg/kg) administrations peroxidase general activity in granulocytes has not considerably changed, but the number of TPGs and SPGs was decreased in neutrophils. Multiple administrations of a higher dose of hydrocortisone (5 mg/kg) have induced peroxidase activity decreasing in neutrophils and a decrease in the number and electron density of TPGs and SPGs in them. In basophils there was a significant accumulation of the reaction product of high electron density in perinuclear space, in specific granules and GER channels. The conclusions has been drawn that a short-term raising of hydrocortisone level stimulates and prolonged hypercorticism inhibits peroxidase activity in neutrophils and, consequently, their function.
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PMID:Cytochemical and ultracytochemical studies of peroxidase activity in rabbit blood granulocytes under hydrocortisone effect. 619 65