11.   The normal gastric mucosa can prevent bypass diffusion of potentially noxious substances from the gastric lumen.

12.   These findings support our own observations and it would be of interest to use immunohistochemistry to examine for the presence of other cytokines in the normal human mucosa.

13.   These biopsies were later investigated in a light microscope to confirm a normal mucosa.

14.   Significantly more EGF positive papillae were found in the normal mucosa than in the inflamed mucosa.

15.   The percentage of patients with normal mucosa was significantly less in the alcoholic group compared with the normal groups.

16.   The lesion has been described as a volcano with central whitish discoloration projecting from an otherwise normal gastric mucosa.

17.   Twenty subjects with normal colonoscopy and histologically normal colonic mucosa were included as a control group.

18.   Parallel studies of expression of the DCC gene confirm that while mRNA transcripts are present in normal colonic mucosa and adenomas, the gene is frequently unexpressed in carcinomas.

19.   An age dependent decline in acid output and gastric secretory volume has been reported in old subjects with normal gastric mucosa.

20.   Gastric metaplasia seemed to be significantly more extensive in patients with microscopic evidence of chronic or active duodenitis in comparison with histologically normal mucosa.