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Department of Pathology and Immunology, Monash University Medical School, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 3181
We have investigated the underlying basis of the lesion in murine autoimmune gastritis, a model of the human disease pernicious anemia. The disease is mediated by T lymphocytes and characterized by selective depletion of parietal and zymogenic cells from the gastric unit (gland) together with gastric epithelial cell hyperplasia. The gastric units of gastritic stomachs contained 2.3-fold more cells than normal and accumulated rapidly dividing, short-lived gastric epithelial stem cells and mucous neck cells. Most of these immature cells failed to differentiate into end-stage cells but rather appeared to die by apoptosis. We also found no correlation between anti-parietal cell autoantibody titers and the degree of gastric pathology, providing further evidence that autoantibodies do not play a direct role in the pathogenesis of gastritis. Taken together, the normal developmental pathways of the gastric mucosa are disrupted in autoimmune gastritis, resulting in an amplification of immature cell types. The differentiation of these immature cells appears to be blocked, contributing to depletion of end-stage cells. This scenario provides an explanation for depletion of not only parietal cells but also zymogenic cells even though they are not directly targeted by the immune system.
gastric mucosa; autoimmunity; parietal cells; zymogenic cells
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