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Most of the nation's 2,500,000 peptic ulcer victims get a measure of relief from bland diets and from tablets and emulsions that neutralize excess stomach acid. But there are tens of thousands who have been forced to submit to more drastic treatment and have had part of their stomachs cut out. In the future, such radical operations may not be necessary. Dr. Owen H. Wangensteen and his inventive research team at the University of Minnesota Hospitals have devised a method of avoiding operations (gastrectomies) simply by giving the stomach a short, quick dose of deep freezing...
...little and often. But while treating patients for bleeding stomach ulcers. Surgeon Wangensteen and his research team got an idea. Chilling the stomach checked both the flow of digestive juices and bleeding. Why not deepen the chilling to the freezing stage, knock out the stomach's acid factory more completely, and give the patient relief for months or years? The technique should then be a boon to the almost 90% of peptic ulcer cases whose ulcers are in the duodenum (the next lower unit of the digestive tract): cutting down the flow of corrosive juices at their source...
...stomach regains too much of its acid-producing power, as it may in a few months, patients may have their stomachs quick-frozen again. And. insists Dr. Wangensteen. most of them could walk in off the street, get the treatment as outpatients, and go back to work...
Speakers include Dr. T. Hastings Wilson, associate professor of Physiology, who will discuss "Amine Acid Absorption by the Intestine:" Dr. Arthur K. Solomen, associate professor of Biophysics. "The Biophysics of Ion and Water Transport in the Kidney Tubule;" and Dr. Guide Majno, associate professor of Pathology, "The Mechanism of Vascular Leakage in Inflammation...
...result," Dr. Wacker said, "was a doubling of the DNA [deoxyribonucleic acid] in the nucleus of the cell [a process that precedes normal cell division] although the RNA [ribonucleic acid] content of the cell was markedly reduced along with protein and zinc...