Protective Factors of the Gastric and Duodenal Mucosa: An Overview

Current Gastroenterology Reports

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Yandrapu, Harathi ^a   Sarosiek, Jerzy ^a  

^a Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell renewal; Endothelial microvascular barrier; Growth factors; Mucus buffers phospholipid barrier; Nitric oxide; Prostaglandins

Indexed keywords

BETA DEFENSIN; CATHELICIDIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; MUCIN; NITRIC OXIDE; OXYGEN; PHOSPHOLIPID; PROSTACYCLIN; PROSTAGLANDIN; SOMATOMEDIN C; SURVIVIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA; TREFOIL PEPTIDE;

ANGIOGENESIS; APOPTOSIS; BLOOD FLOW; CELL REGENERATION; CELL RENEWAL; CELL SURFACE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DUODENUM MUCOSA; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EPITHELIUM CELL; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; INNERVATION; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROVASCULATURE; PH MEASUREMENT; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECRETION; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; STOMACH MUCOSA; STOMACH MUCOSA INJURY; DUODENUM; GASTRIC MUCOSA; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; INTESTINE MUCOSA; MUCUS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; STOMACH;

DUODENUM; GASTRIC MUCOSA; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; MUCUS; STOMACH;

EID: 84932617843     PISSN: 15228037     EISSN: 1534312X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11894-015-0452-2     Document Type: Review

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