Expression data from stomach biopsies with gastritis and intestinal metaplasia lesions

Helicobacter pylori is a well-recognized bacterium associated with the development of several histopathological lesions in the stomach. The chronic infection produces an inflammatory lesion known as gastritis. This lesion can later progress to more serious lesions such as intestinal metaplasia. Some attempts in the transcriptome of these conditions have been made; these however, have yielded limited information. Given the potential of high-throughput technologies for understanding biological processes altered and in the description of biomarkers of disease, we performed a genome-wide gene expression analysis in gastric biopsies. The aim of this study was to describe the altered molecular mechanism and potential biomarkers of follicular gastritis, chronic gastritis and intestinal metaplasia, through the identification of characteristic gene expression profiles in each histopathological lesion. The exploratory set comprised twenty-one biopsies from patients with follicular gastritis (n=7), chronic gastritis (n=7), and intestinal metaplasia (n=7), which were analyzed by whole-genome gene expression microarrays. The enrichment analyses and functional annotation of genes using computational tools were performed. The bioinformatics data of the same 21 biopsies were validated by real time PCR analysis while 79 FFPE samples were analyzed by immunohistochemistry.

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