The intestinal epithelium is a highly dynamic barrier that regulates digestion, absorption, immune responses, and ...

Helicobacter pylori is a Gram-negative, microaerophilic bacterium that colonizes the gastric mucus overlying the epithelium of the stomach in more than 50% of the world’s population. This ...

Indeed, when metaplasia is widespread and advanced, affecting almost the entire duodenal mucosa, as it is in severe, chronic inflammatory lesions, almost all of the cells possess the gastric phenotype ...