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Gastric-and-intestinal mixed-type intestinal metaplasia: aberrant expression of transcription factors and stem cell intestinalization.
Gastric cancer : official journal of the International Gastric Cancer Association and the Japanese Gastric Cancer Association - 1 Jan 2006
Tsukamoto Tetsuya, Mizoshita Tsutomu, Tatematsu Masae
Abstract excerpt
Helicobacter pylori plays a causative role in the development of chronic atrophic gastritis, intestinal metaplasia (IM), and stomach cancer. Although IM has long attracted attention as a putative preneoplastic lesion for stomach cancers, its clinicopathologic significance has yet to be clarified...
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