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Helicobacter pylori non-cytotoxic genotype enhances mucosal gastrin and mast cell tryptase.
Journal of clinical pathology - 1 Mar 1999
Basso D, Navaglia F, Brigato L, Di Mario F, Rugge M, Plebani M
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AIMS: To determine the association, if any, between H pylori genotype and the gastric mucosal variations in the levels of gastrin, somatostatin, tryptase, and histamine. METHODS: 49 patients affected by duodenal ulcer and 48 by non-ulcer dyspepsia were studied. To identify the H pylori genotype, the presence of the cagA gene and vacA alleles m1, m2, s1, and s2 were analysed by polymerase chain reaction. Gastrin,...
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