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Amphiregulin-deficient mice develop spasmolytic polypeptide expressing metaplasia and intestinal metaplasia.
Gastroenterology - 1 Apr 2009
Nam Ki Taek, Lee Hyuk-Joon, Mok Hoyin, Romero-Gallo Judith, Crowe James E, Peek Richard M, Goldenring James R
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BACKGROUND & AIMS: The loss of parietal cells from the fundic mucosa leads to the emergence of metaplastic lineages associated with an increased susceptibility to neoplastic transformation. Both intestinal metaplasia (IM) and spasmolytic polypeptide (TFF2/SP) expressing metaplasia (SPEM) have bee...
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