Smoking and Urinary Cotinine Levels Are Predictors of Increased Risk for Gastric Intestinal Metaplasia

How are we addressing gastric intestinal metaplasia ?

Is intestinal metaplasia a risk for gastric carcinoma?

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Increased apoptosis in gastric mucosa adjacent to intestinal metaplasia.

BACKGROUND The biological processes involved in the development of gastric mucosal atrophy and intestinal metaplasia are still incompletely understood. Reports testing the hypothesis that apoptosis leads to atrophy have yielded conflicting results. The availability of new antibodies for the detection of apoptotic cells in tissue sections has facilitated the analysis of the role of apoptosis in ...

Increased lysozyme expression in gastric biopsies with intestinal metaplasia and pseudopyloric metaplasia.

Lysozyme is an innate enzyme with potent non-immunological antibacterial properties in the upper intestinal tract. Lysozyme expression (ly-ex) was investigated in 80 consecutive sets of gastric biopsies having normal gastric mucosa (n=20), chronic gastritis (n=20), gastric intestinal metaplasia (IM, n=20), and pseudopyloric metaplasia (PpM, n=20). In biopsies with normal mucosa and with chronic...

Decline in non-smoking workers’ urine cotinine levels after increased smoking regulation in Korea

OBJECTIVES To identify any association between implementing smoking regulation policies and workers' urine cotinine concentration levels in Korea. METHODS From the first stage of the Korean National Environmental Health Survey conducted by the National Institute of Environmental Research from 2009 to 2011, 2,475 non-smoking workers selected. We analyzed the trend in the changes of cotinine co...