Study on the classification of chronic gastritis at molecular biological level.

AIM: To explore the pathophysiologibasis for the fact that patients with digestive tract symptoms do not necessarily have gastric mucosal pathology and those without clinical symptoms do not necessarily have no gastric mucosal pathology.

METHODS

The ultrastructure, trace elements, cAMP, DNA, SOD and LPO in the gastric mucosa and its epithelial cells of 188 patients without organic lesions of heart, lung, liver, gallbladder, pancreas, kidney or intestine and basically histopathological normal persons (F) were detected synchronously by SEM, TEM, EDAX, Image analysis system RIA and (3)H-TdR Lymphocyte Transfer Test.

RESULTS

The content of Zn, Cu, cAMP and (3)H-TdR LCT in gastric mucosa and the content of Zn, Cu, DNA and LPO in gastric mucosa epithelial nuclei of each group were shown as belows: Normal control (4.1+/-1.0, 5.2+/-0.8, 15.9+/-1.5, 1079.7+/-227.4, 7.6+/-0.4, 58.4+/-0.3, 12.6+/-2.7, 2.6+/-0.6); CSG without symptoms group (3.7+/-1.2, 5.1+/-1.8, 15.6+/-0.9, 924.5+/-234.9, 7.8+/-0.3, 58.6+/-0.4, 13.0+/-3.1, 2.9+/-0.4); CAG without symptoms group (3.3+/-1.0, 4.8+/-0.9, 14.9+/-0.7, 887.7+/-243.6, 7.8+/-0.3, 58.7+/-0.3, 14.3+/-2.8, 3.1+/-0.4); F type with symptoms group (3.5+/-1.4, 4.5+/-1.0, 15.7+/-1.4, 932.1+/-2449.3, 7.9+/-0.4, 58.7+/-0.5, 13.5+/-4.6, 2.9+/-0.7); CSG with symptoms group (2.8+/-1.9, 4.0+/-1.5, 14.2+/-1.8, 867.3+/-240.5, 8.1+/-0.5, 58.9+/-0.5, 15.2+/-3.2, 4.2+/-0.7); CAG with symptoms group (2.0+/-1.8, 3.4+/-1.5, 13.4+/-1.8, 800.9+/-221.8, 8.6+/-0.4, 59.3+/-0.5, 16.5+/-3.1, 4.5+/-0.6). The contents of Zn, Cu in mitochonondria and SOD in gastric mucosa of each group were shown as belows: Normal control group (9.2+/-0.5, 58.3+/-0.3, 170.5+/-6.1), CSG without symptoms group (8.9+/-0.5, 58.2+/-0.3, 167.2+/-5.3), CAG without symptoms group (8.8+/-0.4, 57.5+/-0.2, 166.1+/-4.2); F type with symptoms group (8.9+/-0.5, 58.0+/-0.3, 167.9+/-5.7), CSG with symptoms group (8.6+/-0.5, 57.8+/-0.3, 163.3+/-5.6); CAG with symptoms group (8.3+/-0.4, 57.5+/-0.3, 161.2+/-4.3). There were significant differences in these cases, P<0.05-0.001. There were synchronous changes of gastric mucosa epithelial cellular ultrastructure. The "background lesions" (focal atrophic gastritis, focal intestinal metaplasia, micro-ulcer) in nonfocal gastric mucosa of all groups had significant differences (P<0.05-0.001).

CONCLUSION

Disease with symptoms, disease without symptoms, nondisease with symptoms occur on the basis of the quantitative changes of gastric mucosa epithelial cellular ultrastructure and related bioactive substances.