Article
Helicobacter pylori induced interleukin-8 expression in gastric epithelial cells is associated with CagA positive phenotype.
Journal of clinical pathology - 1 Jan 1995
Crabtree J E, Covacci A, Farmery S M, Xiang Z, Tompkins D S, Perry S, Lindley I J, Rappuoli R
Abstract excerpt
AIMS: To use a range of natural phenotypically variant strains of Helicobacter pylori with disparate CagA and VacA (vacuolating cytotoxin) expression to determine which bacterial factors are more closely associated with epithelial interleukin-8 (IL-8) induction. METHODS: Gastric epithelial cells (AGS and KATO-3) were co-cultured with five H pylori strains which were variously shown to express the cagA gene/CagA...
Topics
- Animals
- Antigens, Bacterial
- Bacterial Proteins
- Blotting, Western
- Cell Line
- Gastric Mucosa
- Gene Expression
- Helicobacter pylori
- Interleukin-8
- Phenotype
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
