Relationship of blood group determinants on Helicobacter pylori lipopolysaccharide with host Lewis phenotype and inflammatory response

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 937-941

  Heneghan, Michael A ^a,b   McCarthy, Ciaran F ^a   Moran, Anthony P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GALWAY   (Ireland)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; BLOOD GROUP ANTIGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; FEMALE; GASTRITIS; HELICOBACTER; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH MUCOSA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; DUODENAL ULCER; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GASTRITIS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; LEWIS BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUTROPHILS; PHENOTYPE; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 0033983326     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.68.2.937-941.2000     Document Type: Article

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