Molecular pathogenesis, targeted therapies, and future perspectives for gastric cancer

Y Zeng, RU Jin - Seminars in cancer biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Gastric cancer is a major source of global cancer mortality with limited treatment options and
poor patient survival. As our molecular understanding of gastric cancer improves, we are …

Metaplasia: tissue injury adaptation and a precursor to the dysplasia–cancer sequence

V Giroux, AK Rustgi - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2017 - nature.com
Metaplasia is the replacement of one differentiated somatic cell type with another
differentiated somatic cell type in the same tissue. Typically, metaplasia is triggered by …

Dissecting transcriptional heterogeneity in primary gastric adenocarcinoma by single cell RNA sequencing

M Zhang, S Hu, M Min, Y Ni, Z Lu, X Sun, J Wu, B Liu… - Gut, 2021 - gut.bmj.com
Objective Tumour heterogeneity represents a major obstacle to accurate diagnosis and
treatment in gastric adenocarcinoma (GA). Here, we report a systematic transcriptional atlas …

Cellular plasticity, reprogramming, and regeneration: metaplasia in the stomach and beyond

JR Goldenring, JC Mills - Gastroenterology, 2022 - Elsevier
The mucosa of the body of the stomach (ie, the gastric corpus) uses 2 overlapping, depth-
dependent mechanisms to respond to injury. Superficial injury heals via surface cells with …

Wnt/β-catenin promotes gastric fundus specification in mice and humans

KW McCracken, E Aihara, B Martin, CM Crawford… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Despite the global prevalence of gastric disease, there are few adequate models in which to
study the fundus epithelium of the human stomach. We differentiated human pluripotent …

Regenerative proliferation of differentiated cells by mTORC 1‐dependent paligenosis

SG Willet, MA Lewis, ZF Miao, D Liu, MD Radyk… - The EMBO …, 2018 - embopress.org
In 1900, Adami speculated that a sequence of context‐independent energetic and structural
changes governed the reversion of differentiated cells to a proliferative, regenerative state …

Single-cell transcriptional analyses identify lineage-specific epithelial responses to inflammation and metaplastic development in the gastric corpus

KA Bockerstett, SA Lewis, CN Noto, EL Ford, JB Saenz… - Gastroenterology, 2020 - Elsevier
Background & Aims Chronic atrophic gastritis can lead to gastric metaplasia and increase
risk of gastric adenocarcinoma. Metaplasia is a precancerous lesion associated with an …

Tamoxifen induces rapid, reversible atrophy, and metaplasia in mouse stomach

WJ Huh, SS Khurana, JH Geahlen, K Kohli, RA Waller… - Gastroenterology, 2012 - Elsevier
Tamoxifen, a selective estrogen receptor modulator, is widely used in research and clinically
in patients. We find that treatment of normal mice with a single≥ 3 mg/20 g body weight …

Gastric epithelial stem cells

JC Mills, RA Shivdasani - Gastroenterology, 2011 - Elsevier
Advances in our understanding of stem cells in the gastrointestinal tract include the
identification of molecular markers of stem and early progenitor cells in the small intestine …

Acid and the basis for cellular plasticity and reprogramming in gastric repair and cancer

JB Sáenz, JC Mills - Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology, 2018 - nature.com
Subjected to countless daily injuries, the stomach still functions as a remarkably efficient
digestive organ and microbial filter. In this Review, we follow the lead of the earliest …