Helicobacter pylori vacuolating toxin accumulates within the endosomal- vacuolar compartment of cultured gastric cells and potentiates the vacuolating activity of ammonia

Journal of Pathology

Volumn 183, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 453-459

  Ricci, V ^a   Sommi, P ^a   Fiocca, R ^a   Romano, M ^b   Solcia, E ^a,c   Ventura, U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c II University of Naples ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

Ammonia; Cell vacuolation; Endosomes; Helicobacter pylori; Toxin internalization; Ultrastructural immunocytochemistry; Vacuolating toxin

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; AMMONIA;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CELL VACUOLE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENDOSOME; GASTRITIS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MEMBRANE FUSION; OSMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

AMMONIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; DRUG SYNERGISM; ENDOSOMES; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; NEUTRAL RED; STOMACH; VACUOLES;

EID: 0030663325     PISSN: 00223417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9896(199712)183:4<453::AID-PATH950>3.0.CO;2-2     Document Type: Article

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