BACKGROUND Non-invasive tools for gastric cancer screening and diagnosis are lacking. Serological testing with the detection of pepsinogen 1 (PG1), pepsinogen 2 (PG2) and gastrin 17 (G17) offers the possibility to detect preneoplastic gastric mucosal conditions. Aim of this study was to assess the performance of these serological tests in the presence of gastric neoplasia. METHODS Histologica...

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...

The expression of a gene encoding an embryonic chick pepsinogen was investigated in developing avian gut. Expression is restricted to the epithelial layer of the embryonic proventriculus (glandular stomach). We can therefore regard this gene as a marker gene for proventricular epithelial differentiation. There is some considerable evidence in favour of epithelial-mesenchymal interactions being ...

Gastric cancer is a heterogeneous disorder; genetic factors, H. pylori infection and various environmental factors contribute to its development. Advanced atrophic corpus-predominant gastritis provides the histological base for its genesis. Low socio-economic status and poor hygienic conditions, smoking habits, heavy alcohol consumption, high salt and low intake of vegetables and fruits are imp...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Synchronous/metachronous gastric epithelial neoplasias (GENs) in the remaining lesion can develop at sites other than the site of endoscopic resection. In the present study, we aimed to investigate the predictive value of serum pepsinogen for detecting multiple GENs in patients who underwent endoscopic resection. METHODS In total, 228 patients with GEN who underwent endoscopic...

The relation between Helicobacter pylori (H pylori) infection and fasting gastrin and pepsinogen-I and -II concentrations was evaluated in 278 volunteers without symptoms and the results were compared with the values obtained in 35 patients with duodenal ulcers. H pylori infection was determined with the 13C-urea breath test in subjects without symptoms and with endoscopy, biopsy (histology and...

Activation of swine pepsinogen with chicken pepsin results in the formation of swine pepsin. Activation of chicken pepsinogen with swine pepsin results in the formation of chicken pepsin. The structure responsible for the species specificity of the enzyme is therefore present in the inactive precursor.

While there appears to be general agreement that adrenocortical deficiency results in a reduction of gastric secretory activity both in man (1-6) and in animals (7-11), no such unanimity of opinion exists regarding the effects of increased activity of the adrenal cortex on gastric secretion. Whereas some studies have shown that the administration of ACTH or of adrenocortical steroids may increa...

This study was aimed to investigate the association of restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs) for pepsinogen genes with peptic ulcer disease. Eighty unrelated controls, 61 patients with gastric ulcer, and 57 patients with duodenal ulcer were studied. No genetic polymorphisms for pepsinogen A were detected by EcoRI digestion in Japanese subjects but a 100 base pairs insertion-deletion...