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Nature Medicine  8, 1080 - 1082 (2002)
doi:10.1038/nm1002-1080

Inflammation intersection: gp130 balances gut irritation and stomach cancer

Timothy C. Wang1 & James R. Goldenring2

1  Gastroenterology Division and Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA timothy.wang@umassmed.edu

2  Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center and Department of Surgery, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

The stomach and the intestine respond differently to inflammation. Work on the cytokine receptor gp130 helps explain why cancer develops in the stomach and inflammatory bowel disease hits the intestine (pages 1089−1097).

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