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Increased phospholipase activity in Helicobacter pylori strains isolated from patients with gastric carcinoma.
Digestive and liver disease : official journal of the Italian Society of Gastroenterology and the Italian Association for the Study of the Liver - 1 Apr 2005
Lusini P, Figura N, Valassina M, Roviello F, Vindigni C, Trabalzini L, Nuti R, Lenzi C, Gonnelli C, Nardi M, Martelli P, Santucci A
Abstract excerpt
PURPOSE: Phospholipase activity, one of Helicobacter pylori pathogenicity factors, has not been investigated enough, so far, although it may induce a remarkable damage to the gastric mucosa. In the present work, we have compared the whole phospholipase activity of H. pylori strains isolated from patients with gastric carcinoma with that of strains isolated from dyspeptic patients without gastric carcinoma....
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