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Helicobacter pylori Induces Apoptosis of Human Monocytes but Not Monocyte-Derived Dendritic Cells: Role of the cag Pathogenicity Island
23 Jul 2004
Abstract excerpt
Monocytes are circulating precursors of the dendritic cell subset, professional antigen-presenting cells with a unique ability to initiate the innate and adaptive immune response. In this study, we have investigated the effects of wild-type Helicobacter pylori strains and their isogenic mutants with mutations in known bacterial virulence factors on monocytes and monocyte-derived dendritic cells. We show that H....
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