Animal Models to Study the Role of Long-Term Hypergastrinemia in Gastric Carcinogenesis

Patients with chronic hypergastrinemia due to chronic atrophic gastritis or gastrinomas have an increased risk of developing gastric malignancy, and it has been questioned whether also patients with hypergastrinemia caused by long-term use of acid inhibiting drugs are at risk. Gastric carcinogenesis...

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Main Authors: Reidar Fossmark, Gunnar Qvigstad, Tom Chr. Martinsen, Øyvind Hauso, Helge L. Waldum
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2011-01-01
Series:Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/975479