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. 1979 Mar;137(3):328-31.
doi: 10.1016/0002-9610(79)90060-6.

Cimetidine protects against stress-induced gastric injury augmented by mucosal barrier breakers

Cimetidine protects against stress-induced gastric injury augmented by mucosal barrier breakers

B A Levine et al. Am J Surg. 1979 Mar.

Abstract

An experimental rat model utilizing cold-restraint stress was employed to test the ability of an H2-receptor antagonist, cimetidine, to control gastric mucosal injury associated with stress augmented by the gastric mucosal barrier breakers, aspirin and taurocholate. Both aspirin and taurocholate, when combined with stress, caused a significant increase in gastric mucosal injury over that seen in animals receiving either stress alone or only gastric mucosal barrier breakers without stress. Pretreatment with cimetidine caused a significant reduction in gastric mucosal injury in stressed animals receiving gastric mucosal barrier breakers. This reduction was to the level of lesions seen in nonstressed animals.

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