GIANT hypertrophy of the gastric mucosa has been known under many synonyms, which include Menetrier's disease, polyadénome en nappe, polyadénome polypeux, giant hypertrophic gastritis ...

In 1982, two Australian physician–scientists discovered a spiral-shaped bacterium whose form not only dictated its function, ...

[50] Defensive Factors. Gastric mucosal blood flow, mucosal restitution, mucus secretion, prostaglandins and glutathione are all considered to be defensive factors. A healthy mucosal barrier in ...

Petersson and colleagues hypothesized that dietary nitrate might influence the gastric mucosa, so they investigated the effects of nitrate and its metabolites in rodents. A high nitrate intake or ...

Usually, stomach cancer sets off from the inner lining of the stomach (mucosa of stomach) and slowly invades it. The cancerous tissue can also spread to the esophagus or towards the small intestine.

pylori infection in the human stomach and determine whether infection upregulates epithelial ST6Gal-I expression, a glycosyltransferase that is overexpressed in multiple mucosal cancers including ...

EUS can detect lesions as small as 2-3 mm in size and is the best method for determining the five echo layers of the stomach. The five echo layers are histologically correlated with the mucosa ...