PPIs bind to and block an enzyme in the gastric parietal cells known as the proton pump, effectively reducing the production ...

Many experts maintain that GERD is caused by dysfunction of the gastroesophageal barrier and that gastric acid secretion is not ... measure of enterochromaffin cell mass, were significantly ...

Any subject whose resting juice contained no acid was excluded from the ... with chronic gastritis 62.5 per cent had parietal-cell, and 38.5 per cent gastric-mucosa antibodies.