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Patients with normal endoscopic findings had significantly higher intragastric concentrations of vitamin C than those with gastric cancer (p less than 0.001), pernicious anaemia (p less than 0.005), gastric ulcer (p less than 0.01), duodenal ulcer (p less than 0.05), or after gastric surgery (p less than 0.01). There was a strong trend (0.05 less than p less than 0.1) towards lower intragastric concentrations of vitamin C in patients with chronic atrophic gastritis. In vitro, vitamin C concentrations remained stable in acidic but fell significantly over 24 hours in alkaline gastric aspirate. Gastric secretory studies in five volunteers showed that vitamin C concentrations increased significantly after intramuscular pentagastrin. 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