"Pylorus" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The region of the STOMACH at the junction with the DUODENUM. It is marked by the thickening of circular muscle layers forming the pyloric sphincter to control the opening and closure of the lumen.
| Descriptor ID |
D011708
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A03.556.875.875.799
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| Concept/Terms |
Pyloric Sphincter- Pyloric Sphincter
- Pyloric Sphincters
- Sphincter, Pyloric
- Sphincters, Pyloric
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Pylorus" by people in Profiles.
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Gangula PR, Challagundla KB, Ravella K, Mukhopadhyay S, Chinnathambi V, Mittal MK, Sekhar KR, Sampath C. Sepiapterin alleviates impaired gastric nNOS function in spontaneous diabetic female rodents through NRF2 mRNA turnover and miRNA biogenesis pathway. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol. 2018 12 01; 315(6):G980-G990.
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Ravella K, Yang H, Gangula PR. Impairment of gastric nitrergic and NRF2 system in apolipoprotein E knockout mice. Dig Dis Sci. 2012 Jun; 57(6):1504-9.
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Gangula PR, Mukhopadhyay S, Ravella K, Cai S, Channon KM, Garfield RE, Pasricha PJ. Tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4), a cofactor for nNOS, restores gastric emptying and nNOS expression in female diabetic rats. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol. 2010 May; 298(5):G692-9.
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Little TJ, Doran S, Meyer JH, Smout AJ, O'Donovan DG, Wu KL, Jones KL, Wishart J, Rayner CK, Horowitz M, Feinle-Bisset C. The release of GLP-1 and ghrelin, but not GIP and CCK, by glucose is dependent upon the length of small intestine exposed. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab. 2006 Sep; 291(3):E647-55.