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 …

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 …

Defects in gastric progenitor cell differentiation are associated with various gastric disorders,
including atrophic gastritis, intestinal metaplasia, and gastric cancer. However, the …

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 …

In patients with Barrett's esophagus (BE), metaplastic columnar mucosa containing epithelial
cells with gastric and intestinal features replaces esophageal squamous mucosa damaged …

Pernicious anemia is still a neglected disorder in many medical contexts and is
underdiagnosed in many patients. Pernicious anemia is linked to but different from …

To infect and cause disease, bacterial pathogens must localize to specific regions of the host
where they possess the metabolic and defensive acumen for survival. Motile flagellated …

Background & Aims Acinar to ductal metaplasia (ADM) occurs in the pancreas in response
to tissue injury and is a potential precursor for adenocarcinoma. The goal of these studies …

The inflammatory spectrum of gastric diseases includes different clinico-pathological
entities, the etiology of which was recently established in the international Kyoto …

The gastric corpus epithelium is the thickest part of the gastrointestinal tract and is rapidly
turned over. Several markers have been proposed for gastric corpus stem cells in both …