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SUBMITTER: Correia ACP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7511298 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Correia Ana C P ACP Calpe Silvia S Mostafavi Nahid N Hoefnagel Sanne Johanna Maria SJM Sancho-Serra Maria Del Carmen MDC de Koning Patricia S PS Krishnadath Kausilia K KK
Scientific reports 20200923 1
Barrett's esophagus (BE) predisposes for the malignant condition of esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC). Since BE patients have few or no symptoms, most of these patients are not identified and not included in surveillance programs. These BE patients are at risk of developing advanced-stage EAC. At present, non-invasive tests to identify BE patients from the general population are lacking. We and others showed that Bone Morphogenetic Protein 4 (BMP4), and other BMPs are upregulated in BE. We aimed t ...[more]