title: Modulation of growth of human gastric enterochromaffin-like cells.
abstract: We consider the multiple interacting factors which lead to the proliferation of human gastric enterochromaffin-like (ECL) cells, and control of this proliferation by somatostatin and its analogues. Somatostatin receptors occur in human fundic mucosa, and octreotide can be considered a useful therapeutic tool to control gastrin-driven ECL cell growth in humans.
authors.affiliation: Cattedra di Gastroenterologia, Università La Sapienza Roma, Italia.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Delle Fave
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Annibale
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002455:Cell Division / Q000502:physiology; D004759:Enterochromaffin Cells / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D013270:Stomach / Q000166:cytology*