[Patterns of the formation of endocrine reactions in relation to the nature and manifestation of a pathological process in the gastroduodenal area].

Correlation between a degree of activation of hormonal secretion and the expression of a pathological process in the gastroduodenal area was established in patients with peptic ulcer, chronic gastroduodenitis with raised secretory gastric function and in patients after vagotomy. A sequence of involvement in the reaction to disease of the regulatory systems of the local (gastrin, serotonin and histamine mechanisms), systemic (enteroinsular axis) and organic (glucocorticoid and adrenal function of the adrenal glands) levels was revealed.