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M-57 antibody, which is capable of distinguishing newly-synthesized type I procollagen from fully-processed, mature collagen, was used to examine the expression of collagen synthesis in hypertrophic pyloric muscle from patients with infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis (IHPS). Seven specimens from IHPS patients were removed at the time of operation; age-matched normal pyloric tissue of 5 post-mortem cases was obtained as controls. Immunohistochemistry was performed using antibody of the amino-terminal end of the procollagen type I propeptide (M-57). Newly-synthesized procollagen (M-57) was strongly detected in both the connective tissue septa between circular muscle bundles, and among the circular-muscle fibers in patients with IHPS. No M-57 staining was observed among the circular-muscle fibers in controls. Our findings show that the hypertrophic circular muscle in IHPS is actively synthesizing collagen, and this may be responsible for the characteristic “firm” nature of the pyloric tumor.

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  1. Children's Research Centre, Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children, Dublin 12, Ireland, , , , , , IE
    E. Miyazaki, T. Yamataka, K. Ohshiro, Y. Taira & P. Puri

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  1. E. Miyazaki
  2. T. Yamataka
  3. K. Ohshiro
  4. Y. Taira
  5. P. Puri

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Miyazaki, E., Yamataka, T., Ohshiro, K. et al. Active collagen synthesis in infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis.Pediatr Surg Int 13, 237–239 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003830050306

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