[Atrophic gastritis is considered to be a precursor lesion of intestinal type GC that is accompanied by hypergastrinemia with subsequent induction of cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2), whose products are responsible for slowing apoptosis and for angiogenesis in GC tumor.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE