Decreased Number of Duodenal Endocrine Cells with Unaltered Serotonin-Containing Cells in Functional Dyspepsia

Am J Gastroenterol. 2016 Dec;111(12):1852-1853. doi: 10.1038/ajg.2016.468.

Authors

Anne-Barbara Witte¹, Marjorie M Walker², Nicholas J Talley², Pertti Aro³, Jukka Ronkainen⁴, Vincenzo Marrazzo⁵, Lars Agréus³, Peter T Schmidt¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
² Faculty of Health and Medicine, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia.
³ Center for Family Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
⁴ Institute of Health Sciences, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.
⁵ Department of Cellular Pathology, Imperial College, London, UK.

PMID: 27924095
DOI: 10.1038/ajg.2016.468

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Abdominal Pain / etiology
Case-Control Studies
Cell Count
Chromogranin A / metabolism*
Duodenum / pathology*
Dyspepsia / complications
Dyspepsia / pathology*
Enteroendocrine Cells / metabolism
Enteroendocrine Cells / pathology*
Humans
Postprandial Period
Serotonin / metabolism*

Substances

Chromogranin A
Serotonin