: Pepsin is an aspartate protease that generated from its proenzyme, pepsinogen by autocatalysis initiated a fall in pH below 5. Human gastric juice contains eight isoenzymes of pepsin. The peptides released on conversion to pepsin which there are potentially five, have been shown antimicrobial activity against wide range bacteria including Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas and Staphylococcus also ...

The aim of this study was to determine the age-specific prevalence of Helicobacter pylori infection in infants and children aged 1-99 months from a poor periurban community in Bangladesh. We also examined the frequency of infection among infants and their 53 immediate family members and evaluated the relationship between infection and fasting serum group II pepsinogen (pepsinogen II) concentrat...

Background/Aims: Gastric atrophy can be diagnosed by serum pesinogen I/II ratio. The aim of this study was to investigate whether the changes of serum pepsinogen I/II ratio can be predicted by gastroscopy. Materials and Methods: Sixty healthy subjects who underwent screening for serum pepsinogen I/II levels, serum Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) antibody, and gastroscopy for two sequential year...

Chronic atrophic gastritis, which is thought to be a high risk for gastric cancer, can be diagnosed by serum pepsinogen levels. We compared the usefulness of the measurement of pepsinogen levels and indirect photofluorography as indicators of gastric cancer in a mass screening involving 5,620 Japanese subjects (mean age: 60.1 years old; male : female = 2,268 : 3,352) in 1991 and 1992. Subjects ...

Intramucosal peptic activity may participate in the genesis of acute and chronic superficial gastritis. The proteolytic activity of homogenates of gastric mucosa (antrum and body) and duodenum were measured at pH 2.0 (total peptic activity) after exposure to pH 8.0 (pepsinogen) and the activated pepsinogen (pepsin) was calculated in pediatric patients investigated for the presence of Helicobact...

Serum pepsinogen I and II levels have recently become popular as indicators of atrophic gastritis in epidemiological studies. Previous studies show a significant association between serum pepsinogen levels and endoscopically diagnosed atrophic gastritis. This study assesses the level of agreement between the degree of atrophic gastritis as assessed by endoscopic examination and by serum pepsino...

Although bile acids damage gastric mucosa, the mechanisms underlying tissue injury induced by these agents are not well understood. To determine whether bile acids alter gastric secretory function, we investigated the actions of sodium cholate, deoxycholate, lithocholate, and their taurine and glycine conjugates on a highly homogeneous population of gastric chief cells. Lithocholyltaurine (LCT)...

Rabbit antisera to pepsin and pepsinogen were characterized by several immunological criteria. Both antisera inhibited the rennet activity of pepsin. Antipepsinogen protected pepsin from alkaline denaturation. Using antipepsinogen, precipitin analysis at pH 5.5 indicated that the native enzyme resembles the precursor more closely than did the denatured enzyme. However, all three proteins have s...

Pepsinogen has been purified from the fundic mucosa of the dog. The preparation is homogeneous by chromatography, amino terminal analysis, ultracentrifugation, electrophoresis on cellulose acetate strips, and disc electrophoresis. Analysis indicates the presence of 352 amino acid residues, at least 12 moles of carbohydrate including some amino sugars, and 1 mole of organic phosphate per mole of...