THE PEPSIN CONTENT OF GASTRIC JUICE SECRETED IN RESPONSE TO HORMONAL STIMULATION

1 June 1944

journal article
research article
Published by American Physiological Society in American Journal of Physiology-Legacy Content

Vol. 141 (4) , 506-508
https://doi.org/10.1152/ajplegacy.1944.141.4.506

Abstract

Stimulation of gastric secretion in the autotransplanted pouch by a mechanism presumed to be hormonal, such as liver extract in the stomach, does not cause a pronounced stimulation of pepsin secretion but produces a gastric juice whose pepsin content is similar to that evoked by histamine. As regards pepsin, histamine could be the humoral or hormonal agent responsible for this type of secretion.