Geographic variations in the phenotype of ciliated gastric cells.

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A total of 229 consecutive gastrectomy specimens (129 from patients living in Hawaii and the remaining 100 from patients living in Sweden) were examined under high-powered light microscopy to investigate the characteristics of the pyloric cells. Six phenotypes of pyloric cells were found: (1) pyloric mucus secreting low-cylindric cells with bubbly cytoplasm, (2) pyloric mucus-negative cells with small cytoplasmic...

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