Gastric ghrelin in relation to gender, stomach topography and Helicobacter pylori in dyspeptic patients

Figure 1 Ghrelin levels in gastric biopsy specimens from the antrum and corpus of patients without H pylori infection. The numbers (n) of female (F) and male (M) patients are given.

Figure 2 Comparison of ghrelin level in H pylori negative [Hp(-)] and H pylori positive [Hp(+)] samples from the antrum and corpus of all screened patients. Population numbers are given.

Figure 3 Comparison of ghrelin levels in H pylori negative [Hp(-)] and H pylori positive [Hp(+)] samples taken from the antrum and corpus of female and male patients. Population numbers are given.

Figure 4 Ghrelin levels in gastric biopsy specimens taken from the antrum and corpus of female (F) and male (M) patients with H pylori infection. The numbers in both gender groups are given.

Figure 5 Distribution of subjects in each study group of female and male patients. Subjects without H pylori infection are marked as Hp(-), while the remaining subjects are H pylori positive with and without cagA expression (cagA(+)vacA(+) and cagA(-)vacA(+), respectively.

Figure 6 Ghrelin levels in female and male antrum and corpus gastric biopsies in relation to H pylori strain cytotoxicity. The numbers in the patient populations are given.