clar697
Forum Guru
Topics: 190
Posts: 199
|
A 38-year-old man comes to the physician 24 hours after vomiting coffee-ground-like material. He has had a 6-month history of intermittent, dull epigastric pain that is temporarily relieved with the use of antacids. Physical examination shows mild epigastric tenderness. Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy shows a duodenal ulcer. Serum studies show markedly increased circulating concentration of gastrin. Gastrin-mediated hyperstimulation of which of the following cell types has contributed the most to the development of a duodenal ulcer in this patient?
A) Acinar cells of Brunner glands
B) Centroacinar cells
C) Enteroendocrine cells
D) Gastric chief cells
E) Mucous neck cells
F) Paneth cells
G) Parietal cells
H) Surface mucous cells
|
| Ali 200736
Forum Junior
Topics: 6
Posts: 67
|
parietal cells
|
| usmlekiller
Forum Guru
Topics: 17
Posts: 870
|
G
___________________
FUTURE 99ER
|
| gladiator9
Forum Newbie
Topics: 1
Posts: 19
|
G; not sure
|
|
| |
| | | | |
