“…Kahlson, Rosengren, Svahn & Thunberg (1964) inhibited histidine decarboxylase actity by subjecting rats to semicarbazide superimposed on a pyridoxine-deficient diet without being able to demonstrate any inhibition of gastric secretion. These experiments have been repeated by other workers using other inhibitors of histidine decarboxylase (Levine, 1965;Thayer & Martin, 1967;Lloyd Fletcher, Pitts, Everett & Griffith, 1969) or inhibitors of protein synthesis (Yeh & Shils, 1969;Henman, 1972) since it is known that gastrin-induced increase in histidine decarboxylase activity depends on intact protein synthesis (Snyder & Epps, 1968). Experiments so far with enzyme inhibition have not elucidated this problem.…”