Different Pathophysiology of Gastritis in East and West? A Western Perspective.

Background: Gastritis results from multifactorial gastric mucosal injury. is the main cause, and associated diseases have typical underlying patterns of gastritis. Gastric ulcer and gastric cancer (GC) develop from chronic atrophic corpus gastritis (CAG) which therefore represents the most important pattern.

Host Lewis phenotype-dependent Helicobacter pylori Lewis antigen expression in rhesus monkeys.

Both human and H. pylori populations are polymorphic for the expression of Lewis antigens. Using an experimental H.