Background & Aim: Herbal medicine usage is prevalent among world people from a long time ago and, It has been five times from 90th to 97th in the USA. According to increasing usage of herbal drugs and investigating the knowledge, beliefs and function of patients to herbal drugs, this research was done. Experimental: It is a descriptive, cross se...

A crystalline protein having powerful proteolytic activity has been described in previous papers of this series (1). This protein was isolated from commercial pepsin preparations which, in turn, had been prepared from the gastric mucosa of swine, t The possibility exists that this protein was formed from some more complicated compound during the process of extraction and does not represent the ...

There is much evidence that regurgitated gastric juice may injure the oesophagus, destroying the surface layers and causing inflammation in surviving tissues. The lesion referred to variously as peptic, digestion, or reflux oesophagitis is common and may be serious, even fatal, in its immediate or late effects or both. The pathology of the disease will be discussed in a later communication. The...

The present study was undertaken to elucidate the effect of pantoprazole and aprepitant on experimental esophagitis in albino rats. Groups of rats, fasted overnight, received normal saline (3 mL/kg, sham control) or toxic control (3 mL/kg) or pantoprazole (30 mg/kg) or aprepitant (10 mg/kg), or their combinations and were subjected to pylorus and forestomach ligation. Animals were sacrificed af...

The influence of environmental stressors on the pathogenesis of gastrointestinal disease has received increased awareness. Stress affects different physiological functions of the gastrointestinal tract, including gastric acid secretion and mucosal blood flow. Repeated exposures of rapid-onset, highly-sustained hypergravity cause severe physical stress in the pilot. Although the effects of expos...

Epidermal growth factor (EGF) was measured in saliva and in gastric juice under basal conditions and after histamine stimulation (0.04 mg kg-'h-'). Sixty subjects studied comprised 20 normal volunteers, 20 patients with duodenal ulcer (DU), and 20 patients with nonulcer dyspepsia (NUD). There was no difference in basal salivary EGF concentrations between control and DU or control and NUD subjec...

Criteria used to establish the diagnosis of tropical sprue were previously published.5 Twenty-one of the patients with sprue and four of the normal subjects were Puerto Rican. The patients with sprue ranged in age from 15 to 74 and the normal groups from 25 to 56. Treated patients were receiving folic acid orally, 5 mg. daily. Gastric juice was collected before and for 90 mm. after subcutaneous...

Free radicals and reactive species produced in vivo can trigger cell damage and DNA modifications resulting in carcinogenesis. Dietary antioxidants trap these species limiting their damage. The present study evaluated the role of vitamins C and E in the prevention of potentially premalignant modifications to DNA in the human stomach by supplementing patients who, because of hypochlorhydria and ...

A 35-year-old healthy man presented with gradually progressive abdominal pain and distention, nausea, vomiting, early satiety, and 4.5-kg weight gain over 3-4 months. His routine blood work, thyroid panel, ultrasound, and abdominal/pelvic CT were unremarkable. Esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) revealed a large gastric phytobezoar extending from gastric fundus to antrum (Figure 1). The patient di...