Sentences with word «pepsinogen»

Acidic environment of stomach helps conversion of pepsinogen into pepsin which is most important to digest the protein into smaller component like complex protein into simple peptides and amino acids inside stomach which is later absorbs by gastro intestinal tract.

Achlorhydria may also be documented by measurements of extremely low levels of pepsinogen A (PgA)(< 17 µg / L) in blood serum.

She determined the structural difference between pepsin and its precursor pepsinogen, analyzed the proteins» shapes, and determined how temperature and chemical conditions influence their structures.

The more common cause of B - 12 deficiency is atrophic gastritis, which involves a decrease in the production of acid and pepsinogen in the stomach and subsequent decrease in cleavage of B - 12 from animal foods.

For example, the digestive enzyme pepsin arises when HCl cleaves the proenzyme pepsinogen.

Pepsinogen II, pepsinogen I / II ratio, and HP IgG were associated with predicting precancerous or cancerous lesions at baseline, and pepsinogen I, pepsinogen I / II ratio, and gastrin - 17 were associated with follow - up surveillance benefit.

These enzymes are secreted by salivary glands (alpha - amylase and lingual lipase), the stomach (pepsinogen, gelatinase and gastric lipase), the pancreas (alpha - amylase, lipase, trypsinogen and chymotrysinogen), and the small bowel (disaccharidases, intestinal lipase and erepsin protease).

Third, achlorhydria has been defined as a ratio of serum pepsinogen I / pepsinogen II of less than 2.9.