Yoonkyung Won

Countries with a high prevalence of gastric cancers have well developed programs aimed at identifying and monitoring gastric cancer precursors. However, there is limited information about the performance of such programs in the United States…

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…

BACKGROUND: Gastric cancer arises within a sequential carcinogenic process from metaplasia to dysplasia and adenocarcinoma. It is known that Kras activation in chief cells recapitulates gastric carcinogenesis observed in patients with gastric cancer…

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…