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LESTER R. DRAGSTEDT, Ph.D., M.D.

AMA Arch Surg. 1957;75(4):552-557.

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In descriptions of the mechanism of gastric secretion, physiologists¹ frequently speak of the nervous, the gastric, and the intestinal phases of secretion. These terms refer to the fact that a secretion of gastric juice in the stomach may be stimulated by impulses in the vagus nerves aroused reflexly by the sight, odor, or taste of food or by the introduction of food into the stomach or upper portions of the intestinal tract. The main outlines of the nervous phase of gastric secretion were delineated by the extensive studies of Pavlov and his pupils² and have been confirmed and extended to man by observations made on ulcer patients treated by division of the vagus nerves to the stomach.³ These studies have indicated that the fasting continuous secretion of gastric juice in normal man is chiefly of nervous origin and that it is tremendously increased in duodenal ulcer patients. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Chicago

From the Department of Surgery of The University of Chicago.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication March 4, 1957.

Read at the 14th Annual Meeting of the Central Surgical Association, Chicago, Feb. 22, 1957.

The work on which this summary is based was aided by grants from the Division of Research Grants and Fellowships of the National Institutes of Health, U. S. Public Health Service, and from the Otho S. A. Sprague Memorial Institute.

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