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The cellular origins of cancer with particular reference to the gastrointestinal tract.
International journal of experimental pathology - 1 Oct 2020
Alison Malcolm R
Abstract excerpt
Stem cells or their closely related committed progenitor cells are the likely founder cells of most neoplasms. In the continually renewing and hierarchically organized epithelia of the oesophagus, stomach and intestine, homeostatic stem cells are located at the beginning of the cell flux, in the basal layer of the oesophagus, the isthmic region of gastric oxyntic glands and at the bottom of gastric pyloric-antral...
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