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The intramucosal distribution of gastric alcohol dehydrogenase and aldehyde dehydrogenase activity in rats

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Using qualitative and microquantitative histochemical techniques, alcohol dehydrogenase and aldehyde dehydrogenase activity was studied in the gastric mucosa of male and female rats. Alcohol dehydrogenase was demonstrated by staining reactions with maximum activity in surface and neck cells and with clearly weaker activity also in parietal cells. Aldehyde dehydrogenase could be detected in surface and neck cells, and also to a comparable degree in the parietal cells. Quantitative analyses of microdissected samples yielded high values for alcohol dehydrogenase activity exclusively in the superficial part of the gastric mucosa, whereas low-K m aldehyde dehydrogenase activity showed a decreasing gradient from the surface to the deeper parts of the mucosa. Sex differences could not be confirmed.

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  1. Anatomisches Institut der Universität Basel, Pestalozzistrasse 20, CH-4056, Basel, Switzerland

    I. P. Maly, M. Arnold, K. Krieger & D. Sasse

  2. Clinic of Infectious Disease, Medical University of Wroclaw, PL-53-416, Wroclaw, Poland

    M. Zalewska

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Dedicated to Professor Dr. K.S. Ludwig on the occasion of his 70th birthday

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Maly, I.P., Arnold, M., Krieger, K. et al. The intramucosal distribution of gastric alcohol dehydrogenase and aldehyde dehydrogenase activity in rats. Histochemistry 98, 311–315 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00270015

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