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Autophagy in Helicobacter pylori Infection and Related Gastric Cancer.
Helicobacter - 1 Oct 2015
Castaño-Rodríguez Natalia, Kaakoush Nadeem O, Goh Khean-Lee, Fock Kwong Ming, Mitchell Hazel M
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BACKGROUND: Autophagy, a degradation pathway in which cytoplasmic content is engulfed and degraded by lysosomal hydrolases, plays a pivotal role in infection and inflammation. Given that defects in autophagy lead to increased susceptibility to infection, we investigated the role of autophagy in Helicobacter pylori-related gastric cancer (GC). MATERIALS AND METHODS: Gene expression of 84 molecules was examined...
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