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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Dec 22.
Published in final edited form as: Gastroenterology. 2012 Apr 23;142(7):1424–1430. doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2012.04.028

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Opportunistic expansion of RECs in response to gastroesophageal reflux disease. RECs are shown at the junction of the esophagus and stomach in normal adults and expand along the basement membrane vacated by the reflux-induced death of squamous esophageal cells to form Barrett’s esophagus.