Gastroenterology
Volume 92, Issue 6 , Pages 1876-1884 , June 1987

pH of the microclimate lining human gastric and duodenal mucosa in vivo: Studies in control subjects and in duodenal ulcer patients

  • E.M.M. Quigley
    • ,
  • L.A. Turnberg

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress requests for reprints to: Professor L. A. Turnberg, Department of Medicine, Hope Hospital, University of Manchester School of Medicine, Eccles Old Road, Salford M6 8HD, United Kingdom.

Received 9 September 1985 ,Accepted 4 November 1986.

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