Antrum- and corpus mucosa-infiltrating CD4+ lymphocytes in Helicobacter pylori gastritis display a Th1 phenotype

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 66, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 5543-5546

  Sommer, Frank ^a   Faller, Gerhard ^b   Konturek, Peter ^b   Kirchner, Thomas ^b   Hahn, Eckhart G ^b   Zeus, Jürgen ^c   Röllinghoff, Martin ^a   Lohoff, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c Praxis für Innere Medizin   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 4;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GASTRITIS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH ANTRUM; STOMACH MUCOSA; T LYMPHOCYTE;

EID: 0032412104     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.66.11.5543-5546.1998     Document Type: Article

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