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Gastric carcinomas have been assayed for the presence of villin and for the small intestinal hydrolases aminopeptidase N and sucrase isomaltase. These proteins seem not to be present in normal stomach epithelium. However intestinal metaplasia in stomach, and tumour cells in the glandular patterns of gastric carcinoma were positive for all three markers, showing characteristic apical positivity. In contrast, in diffuse gastric carcinomas the percentage of signet ring cells positive for these markers varied from 10–100% with each marker showing a similar percentage of positive cells. Testing of gastric carcinomas with antibodies specific for different keratin polypeptides showed that while all 7 tumours were positive for keratins 8 and 18,2 were also positive for keratin 7. In the keratin 7 positive tumours all tumour cells were keratin 7 positive. The keratin 8 antibody also reacted on routinely fixed specimens. Thus gastric carcinomas reveal different degrees of gastric and intestinal differentiation
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Osborn, M., Mazzoleni, G., Santini, D. et al. Villin, intestinal brush border hydrolases and keratin polypeptides in intestinal metaplasia and gastric cancer; an immunohistologic study emphasizing the different degrees of intestinal and gastric differentiation in signet ring cell carcinomas. Vichows Archiv A Pathol Anat 413, 303–312 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00783022
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