pepsinogen in English

noun
1
a substance that is secreted by the stomach wall and converted into the enzyme pepsin by gastric acid.
In the stomach, pepsinogen is secreted, and activated into pepsin by the acid that is secreted at the same site.

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1. Advanced gastric atrophy and hypo- or Achlorhydrias cause very low levels of pepsinogen I in contrast to pepsinogen II, which remains elevated in serum

2. Advanced gastric atrophy and hypo- or Achlorhydrias cause very low levels of pepsinogen I in contrast to pepsinogen II, which remains elevated in serum (Samloff, 1982; Samloff et al., 1982)

3. The effects of dietary urea supplementation and of a 10-week trickle infection regime, simulating chronic exposure to Haemonchus contortus, on the zymogenic population of the Abomasa of Hampshire Down lambs was examined.At necropsy a variety of parameters including plasma pepsinogen concentrations, the wet weights of Abomasal fundic mucosal pieces and the amounts of pepsinogen contained in