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Interleukin-1beta polymorphisms, Helicobacter pylori infection in individuals from Northern Brazil with gastric adenocarcinoma.
Clinical and experimental medicine - 1 Oct 2004
Gatti L Lobo, Burbano R Rodríguez, de Assumpção P Pimentel, Smith M de Arruda Cardoso, Payão S L Marques
Abstract excerpt
Gastric carcinogenesis is a complex, multistep process, which may be influenced by many factors and is the second most common type of malignancy and the second most-common cause of mortality in the word. Interleukin-1 is up-regulated in the presence of Helicobacter pylori and is important for initiating and amplifying the inflamatory response to this infection. Recently interleukin-1 polymorphisms have been...
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