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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 in detail. Using gastric and intestinal epithelial cell markers, IM was here divided into two major types: a...
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