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Human gastric acid secretion and intragastric acidity

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Advances in Peptic Ulcer Pathogenesis

Abstract

Since the mid-1970s, there has been a move away from the assessment of gastric secretion of acid by man in response to a single pharmacological stimulus to either the measurement of ‘natural’ gastric acid secretion in response to a whole meal or the measurement of intragastric acidity (which is the end-result of not only gastric acid secretion, but also food and liquid taken by mouth and also gastric emptying).

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    W. D. W. Rees MD, MRCP (Consultant Physician and Gastroenterologist) (Consultant Physician and Gastroenterologist)

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Pounder, R.E. (1988). Human gastric acid secretion and intragastric acidity. In: Rees, W.D.W. (eds) Advances in Peptic Ulcer Pathogenesis. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1245-8_2

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