| Literature DB >> 18804092 |
Weiqun Kang1, Milena Saqui-Salces, Yana Zavros, Juanita L Merchant.
Abstract
We previously showed that antral gastric tumors develop in gastrin-deficient (Gas(-/-)) mice. Therefore Gas(-/-) mice were studied sequentially over 12 months to identify molecular mechanisms underlying gastric transformation. Fundic atrophy developed by 9 months in Gas(-/-) mice. Antral mucosal hyperplasia developed coincident with the focal loss of TFF1 and Muc5AC. Microarray analysis of 12 month Gas(-/-) tumors revealed an increase in follistatin, an activin/BMP antagonist. We found that elevated follistatin expression occurred in the proliferative neck zone of hyperplastic antrums, in antral tumors of Gas(-/-) mice, and also in human gastric cancers. Follistatin induced cyclin D1 and the trefoil factors TFF1 and TFF2 in a gastric cancer cell line. We concluded that antral hyperplasia in Gas(-/-) mice involves amplification of mucous cell lineages due to follistatin, suggesting its role in the development of antral gastric tumors.Entities:
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Year: 2008 PMID: 18804092 PMCID: PMC2577233 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2008.09.031
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biochem Biophys Res Commun ISSN: 0006-291X Impact factor: 3.575