gastroprotective

English

Etymology

gastro- +‎ protective

Adjective

gastroprotective (comparative more gastroprotective, superlative most gastroprotective)

  1. protective against gastropathy
    • 2015 July 8, Gilbert Ateufack et al., “Gastroprotective and ulcer healing effects of piptadeniastrum Africanum on experimentally induced gastric ulcers in rats”, in BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine‎, volume 15, DOI:10.1186/s12906-015-0713-5:
      Piptadeniastrum africanum stem bark extracts thus have gastroprotective and ulcer healing effects, which could result from their activities by stimulating important cellular mechanisms such as migration and proliferation of epithelial cells that may have a cytoprotective effect by stimulating the release of prostaglandins.
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