[Immunomorphologic study of various endocrine cells in chronic gastritis and in intestinal metaplasia of the stomach].

The amount of some endocrine cells in various forms of chronic gastritis with and without the presence of intestinal metaplasia of the stomach mucosa was studied immunohistochemically (PAP-reaction). The study was carried out on 18 samples of biopsied material for D-cells and on 31--for G cells. It was established that the amount of these cells as well as their ratio was changed in accordance with the form of chronic gastritis. Thus, for example++ , the number of D-cells was increased in mild forms of gastritis, but they were reduced in its grave form, while the number of G-cells gradually diminished from mild to grave forms. These changes give foundation to assume that hr hormonal disturbance of the stomach mucosa plays important role in pathogenesis of this disease. This suggestion is supported by the observed in dynamics quantitative changes of these cells, beginning even at the initial stages of this disease.