From Selye’s and Szabo’s Cysteamine-Duodenal Ulcer in Rats to Dopamine in the Stomach: Therapy Significance and Possibilities

Predrag Sikiric, Alenka Boban Blagaic, Ivan Krezic, Helena Zizek, Luka Kalogjera, Ivan Maria Smoday, Vlasta Vukovic, Katarina Oroz, Helen Marie Chiddenton, Sara Buric, Marko Antunovic, Slaven Gojkovic, Sanja Strbe, Milena Skocic, Suncana Sikiric, Marija Milavic, Lidija Beketic Oreskovic, Antonio Kok · 2023

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Predrag Sikiric and co-authors review fifty years of research tying dopamine to stomach ulcer healing in a 2023 paper. The story starts with a rat model: the chemical cysteamine reliably opens duodenal ulcers, mimicking human stress ulcers. Cysteamine blocks dopamine, which hinted the brain chemical protects the gut.

The review walks the timeline of evidence. Drugs that mimic dopamine healed ulcers across many studies, while blockers tended to provoke them, though odd exceptions appear under mild-stress conditions. Several gut peptides, including the lab's own BPC 157, slot into the same brain-gut story as dopamine's helpers. The authors try to reconcile the agonist-antagonist tangle and sketch what the pathway could offer therapy.

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CREATORPredrag Sikiric, Alenka Boban Blagaic, Ivan Krezic, Helena Zizek, Luka Kalogjera, Ivan Maria Smoday, Vlasta Vukovic, Katarina Oroz, Helen Marie Chiddenton, Sara Buric, Marko Antunovic, Slaven Gojkovic, Sanja Strbe, Milena Skocic, Suncana Sikiric, Marija Milavic, Lidija Beketic Oreskovic, Antonio Kok
YEAR2023
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE38 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC10748240

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