Apposition of Fibroblasts With Metaplastic Gastric Cells Promotes Dysplastic Transition.

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"Funding This work was supported by a Cancer Research UK Grand Challenge Award funding to James R. Goldenring (29075), Lorenzo Ferri (29071), Sui Huang (29068) and Thea D. Tlsty (lead principal investigator; 27145). This work was also supported by grants to James R. Goldenring from a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Merit Review Award IBX000930, Department of Defense CA190172, and National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01 DK101332 and to Eunyoung Choi from NIH R37 CA244970, National Cancer Institute (NCI) R01 CA272687, and an American Gastroenterological Association Research Foundation Funderburg Award (AGA2022-32-01). The Vanderbilt Flow Cytometry Shared Resource, the Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource, and the Vanderbilt Digital Histology Shared Resource are supported by the 10.13039/100007208Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center (P30 CA068485) and the Vanderbilt Digestive Disease Research Center (DK058404). Single-cell sequencing at the McGill Genome Center, Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Institute of Genomic Medicine is supported by the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI) as part of Canada’s Genome Enterprise (Jiannis Ragoussis), CFI 33408, 40104 and CFI-MSI35444. The Translational Pathology Shared Resource is supported by NCI/ NIH Cancer Center Support Grant (P30 CA68485). The Digital Histology Shared Resource is supported by VA Shared Equipment grant 1IS1BX003097."