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Gastric acid secretion in cyclooxygenase-1 deficient mice.
Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics - 1 Oct 2000
Borrelli F, Welsh N J, Sigthorsson G, Simpson R, Palizban A, Bjarnason I, Tavares I A
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BACKGROUND: Constitutive cyclooxygenase-1 enzyme synthesizes prostaglandins which are thought to play an important role in the functional integrity of the stomach gastric mucosa. Recently, it was shown that cyclooxygenase-1 deficient mutant mice did not develop spontaneous gastric pathology and appear less sensitive to indomethacin-induced gastric damage. AIM: To investigate gastric acid secretion in...
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