Ultrastructural observation of the gastric mucosa in chronic gastritis patients treated by traditional Chinese medicine

Table 1 The lesions and the therapeutic effects on the mitochondria and rough endoplasmic reticulum (rER) in chief cells

Differentiation	Total cases	Organelle lesions	Injured cases (%)	Markedly effective	Effective	Ineffective	Total effective rate (%)
PXG	16	Mitochondriab	13 (81.3)	7	4	2	84.6
		rER6	3 (18.8)	1	1	1	1.0
GBG	15	Mitochondria	3 (20.0)	0	2	1	66.7
		rER	12 (80.0)	8	2	2	83.3

^bP < 0.01, compared with GBG.

Table 2 The therapeutic effect of the intercellular space, nuclear membrane and plasmacyte

Ultrastructural changes	Differentiation	Injured	Recovery	Markedly	Effective	Ineffective	Total effective
		Cases (%)		effective			Rate (%)
The intercellular space of mucosal epithelial cells widened	PXG	14 (87.5)	2	6	3	3	78.6
	GBG	12 (80.0)	2	5	3	2	83.3
The intercellular space of antral mucous cells widened	PXG	13 (81.3)	4	5	2	2	84.6
	GBG	13 (86.7)	3	6	3	1	92.3
The nuclear membrane of the mucosal epithelial cells and the antral mucous cells folded and sank in	PXG	10 (62.5)	3	3	2	2	80.0
	GBG	10 (66.7)	2	4	3	1	90.0
The rER in the plasmacyte enlarged	PXG	6 (37.5)a	1	3	0	2	66.7
	GBG	12 (80.0)	4	3	3	2	83.3

^aP < 0.05, compared with GBG.