Ghrelin-producing cells distribution in the stomach and the relation with Helicobacter pylori in obese patients.

Objective: Ghrelin is believed to influence weight evolution after bariatric surgery. Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection may influence ghrelin plasma levels by affecting the ghrelin-producing cells (GPC) in the stomach.

The role of histological evaluation of Helicobacter pylori infection in obese patients referred to laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy.

Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) is the etiological factor for gastritis in more than half of the worldwide population. H.

Effects of ghrelin in energy balance and body weight homeostasis.

Ghrelin is a gut peptide composed of 28 amino acids mostly secreted in the gastric fundus mucosa. It was isolated and described in 1999 by Kojima et al. and only three years later its specific receptor, GHSR1a, was also identified.