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Helicobacter pylori Activates Mitogen-activated Protein Kinase Cascades and Induces Expression of the Proto-oncogenes c-fos and c-jun
1 May 2000
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Helicobacter pylori is an etiological agent in the development of mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma and gastric adenocarcinoma. Patients infected with H. pylori carry a 3-6-fold increased risk of developing cancer compared with uninfected individuals. H. pylori strains expressing the cytotoxin-associated antigen A (CagA) are more frequently associated with the development of neoplasia than cagA-negative...
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