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Clinical Significance of the Ghrelin Concentrations in Plasma and Tumor Tissue from Patients with Gastric Cancer
- Source :
- Journal of the Korean Gastric Cancer Association. 5:238
- Publication Year :
- 2005
- Publisher :
- The Korean Gastric Cancer Association, 2005.
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Abstract
- Purpose: Ghrelin, produced primarily in the gastrointestinal tract, including the stomach, has been reported to reflect nutritional status and to control homeostasis by influencing food intake and adiposity. The purpose of this study is to evaluate nutritional status, as well as plasma and gastric tissue ghrelin levels, in patients with gastric cancer who underwent a gastrectomy. Materials and Methods: Eighty patients were analyzed by the degree of weight loss $(weight\;loss{\geq}5%\;or\
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Gastrointestinal tract
business.industry
medicine.medical_treatment
Stomach
digestive, oral, and skin physiology
Cancer
medicine.disease
Endocrinology
medicine.anatomical_structure
Weight loss
Internal medicine
Medicine
Gastrectomy
Clinical significance
Ghrelin
medicine.symptom
business
Homeostasis
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15981320
- Volume :
- 5
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of the Korean Gastric Cancer Association
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........40b3f3b9efda19ff5a4df5a925be286b