AIM： To investigate the level of gastric ghrelin in stomach mucosa of dyspeptic patients in relation to Helicobacter pylor/（H pylori） infection, bacterial cytotoxicity, topography and gender.METHODS： The study com...AIM： To investigate the level of gastric ghrelin in stomach mucosa of dyspeptic patients in relation to Helicobacter pylor/（H pylori） infection, bacterial cytotoxicity, topography and gender.METHODS： The study comprised 40 premenopausal women （19 H pylori positive） and 48 men （17 H pylori positive） with functional dyspepsia. All gastric biopsy specimens revealed normal mucosa or non-atrophic gastritis. Gastric ghrelin concentration was determined by Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay. The cagA and vacA strains of bacterial DNA were identified by multiplex polymerase chain reaction.RESULTS： In general, infection with H pylori caused an increase in gastric ghrelin level regardless of gender and stomach topography. Significantly more hormone was present in both, non-infected and H pylori positive female samples, as compared to males. The distribution of bacterial strains showed cagA（＋） vacA slml and cagA（-） vacA s2m2 genotypes as the most common infections in the studied population. A tendency to higher ghrelin levels was observed in less cytotoxic （cagA negative） strain-containing specimens from the antrum and corpus of both gender groups （without statistical significance）. CONCLUSION： An increase in gastric ghrelin levels at the stage of non-atrophic gastritis in H pylori positive patients, especially in those infected with cagA（-） strains, can exert a gastroprotective effect.展开更多
基金Supported by The Ministry of Science and Higher Education in Poland project N 402 307336 for 2009-2011 to Nawrot B and No.2 P05B 117 28 of Medical University of Lodz,Poland(toStec-Michalska K 2008)
文摘AIM： To investigate the level of gastric ghrelin in stomach mucosa of dyspeptic patients in relation to Helicobacter pylor/（H pylori） infection, bacterial cytotoxicity, topography and gender.METHODS： The study comprised 40 premenopausal women （19 H pylori positive） and 48 men （17 H pylori positive） with functional dyspepsia. All gastric biopsy specimens revealed normal mucosa or non-atrophic gastritis. Gastric ghrelin concentration was determined by Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay. The cagA and vacA strains of bacterial DNA were identified by multiplex polymerase chain reaction.RESULTS： In general, infection with H pylori caused an increase in gastric ghrelin level regardless of gender and stomach topography. Significantly more hormone was present in both, non-infected and H pylori positive female samples, as compared to males. The distribution of bacterial strains showed cagA（＋） vacA slml and cagA（-） vacA s2m2 genotypes as the most common infections in the studied population. A tendency to higher ghrelin levels was observed in less cytotoxic （cagA negative） strain-containing specimens from the antrum and corpus of both gender groups （without statistical significance）. CONCLUSION： An increase in gastric ghrelin levels at the stage of non-atrophic gastritis in H pylori positive patients, especially in those infected with cagA（-） strains, can exert a gastroprotective effect.
