A 30-year-old man is referred to a gastroenterologist for evaluation of persistent dyspepsia (indigestion)

He is noted to have other symptoms, including flushing and hypotension, and following a bone marrow biopsy, is diagnosed with systemic mastocytosis (an excessive proliferation of histamine-containing mast cells). An increased propensity for gastric and duodenal ulcers in this patient is likely ascribable to overproduction of which of the following second messengers in gastric parietal cells?

A. calcium
B. inositol trisphosphate
C. diacyglycerol
D. cGMP
E. cAMP


ANS: E

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