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Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 269: G600-G605, 1995;
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AJP - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology, Vol 269, Issue 4 600-G605, Copyright © 1995 by American Physiological Society

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Metabolism and influence of gastrin-52 on gastric acid secretion in humans

C. P. Hansen, F. Stadil and J. F. Rehfeld
Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery C, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

It has been shown recently that the two largest alpha-carboxyamidated progastrin products are gastrin-71 and gastrin-52. Human gastrin-52 has now been synthesized, and the effect on gastric acid secretion and elimination from plasma was examined and compared with gastrin-17 in 12 normal subjects. The peptides were infused separately in four consecutive doses; the maximum response of gastrin-17 and gastrin-52 was 25.2 +/- 2.8 and 22.2 +/- 2.8 mmol H+/50 min, respectively (P < 0.01). This difference in efficacy was presumably related to nonequilibrium of gastrin-52 between plasma and receptor. The elimination of gastrin-17 was monoexponential with a half-life of 4.7 +/- 0.3 min; clearance and apparent volume of distribution were 16.7 +/- 1.5 ml.kg-1.min-1 and 106.0 +/- 9.2 ml/kg, respectively. The elimination of gastrin-52 was biexponential, the half-lives were 4.9 +/- 0.7 and 49.9 +/- 4.2 min, and clearance and apparent volume of distribution were 1.9 +/- 0.2 ml.kg-1.min-1 and 106.3 +/- 10.1 ml/kg, respectively. Gel chromatography of plasma samples drawn during infusion of gastrin-52 revealed that most of the immunoreactivity eluted in the position of the intact peptide. Small peaks in the positions of gastrin-34 and the NH2-terminal pentapeptide fragment of gastrin-52 indicate that a minor part of gastrin-52 is degraded to smaller peptides in vivo. It is concluded that gastrin-52 is bioactive with an efficacy close to or similar to that of gastrin-17. A minor fraction of gastrin-52 undergoes postsecretory cleavage either in plasma or after capillary transit.


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