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Augmented intestinal trefoil factor (TFF3) and loss of pS2 (TFF1) expression precedes metaplastic differentiation of gastric epithelium.
The trefoil peptides spasmolytic polypeptide (SP), intestinal trefoil factor (ITF), and pS2 show lineage-specific expression in the normal gut and are strongly induced after mucosal injury. We assessed the relationship between this induction and the development of the regenerative epithelial lineage over time in the rat stomach and verified these observations in the metaplastic and dysplastic human stomach. Antral or colonic ulcers were induced in Wistar rats by application of serosal acetic acid and tissues harvested 2 hours to 125 days later. Human endoscopic biopsies or gastric resection specimens were also assessed. Tissues were examined by radioimmunoassay, immunoblotting, or immunohistochemistry for ITF, SP, and transforming growth factor alpha (rat) or ITF and pS2 (human) expression. ITF and SP mRNA in antral ulcer margins was localized by in situ hybridization. ITF and SP peptide expression rose steadily in ulcer margins after 4 days, with the rise in ITF being more pronounced. By 40 days, several hundred-fold elevations in ITF levels were present, with a field effect in uninvolved mucosa. Hyperproliferative, elongated glands of undifferentiated cells expressing abundant trefoil peptides and acid sulfomucins were present after day 12 and persisted after ulcer healing. ITF mRNA was aberrantly expressed in basal and mid-regions of these regenerative glands. In contrast, transforming growth factor alpha peptide expression rose promptly after injury then fell to baseline levels with healing. Seven months after injury, gastric atrophy, intestinal metaplasia, and severe dysplasia with conserved ITF expression were seen. ITF was also induced in human intestinal metaplasia and conserved in all gastric cancers, whereas expression of the gastric peptide pS2 was progressively reduced in the progression from metaplasia to dysplasia. Persistent, selective overexpression of ITF, possibly acting in an autocrine fashion, is a feature of regeneration after antral ulceration, and may provide insight into the nature of metaplastic phenotypes arising from chronic gastric injury. The loss of pS2 expression in metaplasia and cancer supports a role for this protein in gastric tumor suppression.
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