Gastrointestinal Mucosal Defense System (Colloquium Series on Integrated Systems Physiology: From Molecule to Function)

by Ahmed Yaqinuddin (Author), Peter R. Kvietys (Author), Wael Al Kattan (Author)

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  2014

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  The gastrointestinal mucosal defense system serves to minimize mucosal injury by either ingested or endogenously produced noxious substances. However, there are two situations in which the mucosal defense system is known to be ineffective and result in gastric mucosal injury: inadvertent ingestion of H. pylori. or intentional ingestion of NSAIDs.