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Glaucoma involves the death of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) and their axons, and is characterized by atrophic excavation of the optic nerve [ 2, 3, 4].
The abbreviations used are: CSG, chronic superficial gastritis; CAG, chronic atrophic gastritis; DYS, dysplasia; GC, gastric adenocarcinoma; iNOS, inducible nitric oxide synthase; IM, intestinal metaplasia; VEGF, vascular endothelial growth factor.
Morphologically, cells dying of PCD appear atrophic and exhibit condensed nuclei, which can be stained with nuclear stains (bisbenzimide or propidium iodide), or by the TUNEL assay.
In previously studied genetic backgrounds, homozygosity for D2 alleles of both isa and ipd results in iris atrophy that severely affects both the iris stroma and iris pigment epithelium, leading to a severely atrophic and largely transparent iris in old mice [ 11, 12].
The early indicator for the subject predisposed to GC is abnormal hyperproliferation of gastric epithelial cells, such as chronic atrophic gastritis (CAG), DYS and intestinal metaplasia (IM), which have been considered as precancerous lesions of GC (You et al.