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Gastric and intestinal phenotypic correlation between exocrine and endocrine components in human stomach tumors.
Histology and histopathology - 1 Mar 2007
Takenaka Y, Tsukamoto T, Mizoshita T, Ogasawara N, Hirano N, Otsuka T, Ban H, Nakamura T, Yamamura Y, Kaminishi M, Tatematsu M
Abstract excerpt
We have previously suggested that an origin of a stomach cancer is from a progenitor cell specializing toward exocrine cell (Exo-cell) lineages. To clarify whether our hypothesis is correct or not, we analyzed the expression of Exo-cell and endocrine cell (End-cell) markers in a series of lesions for comparison. We evaluated chromogranin A (CgA) expression in 37 early and 73 advanced stomach cancers, in 30...
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