Yana Zavros

Together with Yana Zavros, Ph.D., an HHMI post-doctoral fellow, Merchant and colleagues compared stomach cells from normal mice with those from a strain of transgenic mice, developed at U-M, that lack the gene for producing gastrin.
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"Our findings show that changes observed in gastrin-deficient mice are caused by inflammation triggered by an overgrowth of many bacterial species," Zavros explains.

Together with Yana Zavros, Ph.D., an HHMI post-doctoral fellow, Merchant and colleagues compared stomach cells from normal mice with those from a strain of transgenic mice, developed at U-M, that lack the gene for producing gastrin.
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"Our findings show that changes observed in gastrin-deficient mice are caused by inflammation triggered by an overgrowth of many bacterial species," Zavros explains."An abnormally low level of acidity in the stomach is the factor initiating all these events."

Together with Yana Zavros, Ph.D., an HHMI post-doctoral fellow, Merchant and colleagues compared stomach cells from normal mice with those from a strain of transgenic mice, developed at U-M, that lack the gene for producing gastrin.
...
"Our findings show that changes observed in gastrin-deficient mice are caused by inflammation triggered by an overgrowth of many bacterial species," Zavros explains."An abnormally low level of acidity in the stomach is the factor initiating all these events."