Salicylate Damage to the Gastric Mucosal Barrier

摘要: EVER since Reaumur, more than two centuries ago, discovered that gastric juice digests meat, men have asked: "Why doesn't the stomach digest itself?" There are answers to this question. One is, of course, sometimes does itself, with disastrous consequences. The other is mucosa contains a barrier prevents digestive from attacking wall stomach. A standard scientific method studying any system introduce perturbation and see what happens. Because salicylates — acetylsalicylic salicylic acids – destroy mucosal barrier, I used . . .