Moreover, triple fluorescent staining for tomato lectin, desmin, and α-smooth muscle actin (α-SMA) in normal intestinal tissue, adenoma, and adenocarcinoma (Figure 1D) revealed that α-SMA-positive pericytes, which were absent in normal capillaries[9], were clearly present in both adenoma and adenocarcinoma samples. This evidence concerns the gene DES and adenocarcinoma.