AKT1 and chronic gastritis: In our previous study, we showed that the activation of oxidative stress and v-akt murine thymoma viral oncogene homolog (AKT) increased substantially in each of the following categories of chronic gastritis: chronic gastritis without H. pylori, chronic active gastritis with H. pylori, chronic metaplastic gastritis without H. pylori, and chronic gastritis with atypia without H. pylori [4].