Brianna Caldwell

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Ménétrier’s disease (MD) is a rare acquired protein-losing hypertrophic gastropathy characterized by giant gastric rugal folds, decreased acid secretion, increased gastric mucus production, and hypoalbuminemia due to protein loss in the gastric mucosa…

Isthmic progenitor cells, tissue-specific stem cells in the stomach corpus, maintain mucosal homeostasis by balancing between proliferation and differentiation to gastric epithelial cell lineages. The progenitor cells rapidly adopt an active state in response to mucosal injury…