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Genetic host factors in Helicobacter pylori-induced carcinogenesis: Emerging new paradigms.
Biochimica et biophysica acta. Reviews on cancer - 1 Jan 2018
Mommersteeg Michiel C, Yu Jun, Peppelenbosch Maikel P, Fuhler Gwenny M
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Helicobacter Pylori is a gram negative rod shaped microaerophilic bacterium that colonizes the stomach of approximately half the world's population. Infection with c may cause chronic gastritis which via a quite well described process known as Correas cascade can progress through sequential development of atrophic gastritis, intestinal metaplasia and dysplasia to gastric cancer. H. pylori is currently the only...
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