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Mixed gastric- and intestinal-type metaplasia is formed by cells with dual intestinal and gastric differentiation.
The journal of histochemistry and cytochemistry : official journal of the Histochemistry Society - 1 Jan 2005
Niwa Toru, Ikehara Yuzuru, Nakanishi Hayao, Tanaka Harunari, Inada Ken-ichi, Tsukamoto Tetsuya, Ichinose Masao, Tatematsu Masae
Abstract excerpt
We have proposed to divide intestinal metaplasia (IM) into two categories, i.e., a mixed gastric and intestinal (GI) type, and a solely intestinal (I) type, based on the residual gastric phenotype cells. The GI-mixed-type IM can be identified by the presence of both cells with either gastric or intestinal phenotypes in a single gland. This study is conducted to elucidate whether cells in the GI-mixed-type IM...
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