Abstract
We studied the expression of trefoil peptides in the different types of intestinal metaplasia of the stomach. Endoscopic biopsy was performed in 132 patients with dyspepsia. Intestinal metaplasia subtype was classified according to the pattern of alcian blue/PAS staining and high iron diamine staining. Expression of trefoil peptides was measured by immunohistochemistry. TFF1 and TFF3 were mainly expressed in goblet cells and TFF2 in columnar cells in all the types of intestinal metaplasia. There was a gradual decrease of TFF1 and TFF3, and increase of TFF2, during the progression of intestinal metaplasia from type I to type III via the type II intermediate.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 779-783 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Peptides |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - May 2004 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:We thank Dr. N. Wright and G. Elia of Cancer Research UK, London, UK for providing the TFF1 and TFF2 mouse monoclonal antibodies. We also thank Dr. A. Giraud of the University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia for providing the TFF3 rat polyclonal antibody. This study was partially supported by the Research Institute of Clinical Medicine, Our Lady of Mercy Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea.
Keywords
- Immunohistochemistry
- Metaplasia
- Stomach
- Trefoil peptide