Review article: Immunological determinants that may affect the Helicobacter pylori cancer risk.

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2036.1998.00010.x

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Review article: Immunological determinants that may affect the Helicobacter pylori cancer risk.

Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics - 1 Feb 1998

Blanchard T G, Czinn S J

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A large body of literature supports a role for Helicobacter pylori as an environmental factor which contributes to the development of gastric cancer through an intermediate stage of atrophic gastritis. The mechanism(s) by which H. pylori-associated chronic inflammation progresses to more serious...

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Animals
Gastritis
Helicobacter Infections
Helicobacter pylori
Humans
Interferon-gamma
Interleukin-12
Mice
Phenotype
Stomach Neoplasms

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