Healthy and Diseased Stomach Glands (IMAGE)

NIH/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

Healthy and Diseased Stomach Glands

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Glucocorticoids and androgens promote a healthy stomach pit by inhibiting inflammation, left, while their absence promotes inflammation and SPEM seen in a diseased pit, right. SPEM glands are also much larger than healthy stomach glands.

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Jonathan Busada, Ph.D./NIEHS

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