GST-π was detected in human gastric carcinoma and precancerous lesion by immunohistochemical technique (S-P method). It was shown that 77 6%(45/58) of gastric carcinoma, 76 0%(19/25) of intestinal metaplasia and 89 3%(25/28) of atypical hyperplasia were positively stained immunohistochemically, while most of 39 normal gastric mucosas were negative, with only 4(10 3%) weakly positive. The positive rates of well-differentiated adenocarcinoma, poorly-differentiated adenocarcinoma, undifferentiated adenocarcinoma, mucoid carcinoma and signet ring ...