1.   When infiltrated by inflammatory cells, the mucosa is known to generate a variety of inflammatory lipidic mediators such as arachidonic acid metabolites and platelet activating factor.

2.   It is unknown whether high activity of enzymes is related to change involving the inflammatory cells or both intestinal epithelial and inflammatory cells.

3.   In three of the patients, the duodenal biopsies were normal and in the others there was a chronic and acute inflammatory cell infiltrate and evidence of gastric metaplasia.

4.   Eosinophils were not evident in the inflammatory cell infiltrate.

5.   This may contribute to the urgency to stool often associated with ulcerative colitis if inflammatory cells release NO in sufficient amounts to affect sphinteric function.

6.   They noted that there was no correlation between the location of the organism and the morphological damage to adjacent epithelial cells or the degree of subjacent inflammatory cell infiltrate.

7.   Ketotifen may prevent the release of the inflammatory mediators from mast cells as well as from other inflammatory cells.

8.   Type C gastritis was characterised by the presence of foveolar hyperplasia and tortuosity, vasodilatation, and congestion with a paucity of inflammatory cells in the lamina propria layer.

9.   Type B gastritis was characterised by an increase in inflammatory cells in the lamina propria of the mucosa and polymorphonuclear neutrophils infiltrating the epithelium.