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The metaplastic precursor state to oesophageal adenocarcinoma represents reversion to a transient epithelial cell state in the developing oesophagus
2024-07-25
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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> In Barrett’s oesophagus (BO), the precursor of oesophageal adenocarcinoma, the adult stratified squamous epithelium is replaced by a simple columnar phenotype. This has been considered metaplasia; the inappropriate conversion from one adult cell-type to another. In fact, BO could be a reversal of mammalian embryogenesis when the early foregut is first lined by simple columnar epithelium. Explori...
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- Literature Corpus work
- d21f9b9d-974d-518d-b8a8-b846a51b14a9
- DOI
- 10.1101/2024.07.25.605105
