@article{ATM13578,
author = {Ming Jiang and Jianwen Que},
title = {Re-assessing stem cells in the stomach—one story two tales},
journal = {Annals of Translational Medicine},
volume = {5},
number = {3},
year = {2017},
keywords = {},
abstract = {Gastric cancer is the third most common cancer worldwide, and it accounts for 3–10% of all cancer-related deaths. The vast majority (90–95%) of gastric cancers are adenocarcinomas which include two major histologic types, intestinal and diffuse. Although intestinal-type cancer has been associated with chronic atrophic gastritis and intestinal metaplasia, the exact mechanisms leading to cancer initiation and progression remain largely unknown. Stem/progenitor cell mutations have been linked to cancer initiation in multiple gastrointestinal organs including the esophagus, where we utilized lineage tracing to show that basal progenitor cells are the cell-of-origin for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (1). By contrast, the cell-of-origin for gastric cancers remains somewhat controversial, in part due to the possible presence of multiple stem cells in the stomach (2-5).},
issn = {2305-5847}, url = {https://atm.amegroups.org/article/view/13578}
}