No additive effect between Helicobacter pylori infection and portal hypertensive gastropathy on inducible nitric oxide synthase expression in gastric mucosa of cirrhotic patients

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 162-168

  Arafa, Usama A ^a   Fujiwara, Yasuhiro ^a   Higuchi, Kazuhide ^a   Shiba, Masatsugu ^a   Uchida, Toshiyuki ^a   Watanabe, Toshio ^a   Tominaga, Kazunari ^a   Oshitani, Nobuhide ^a   Matsumoto, Takayuki ^a   Arakawa, Tetsuo ^a  

^a OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Helicobacter pylori; Inducible nitric oxide synthase; Liver cirrhosis; Portal hypertensive gastropathy.

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STOMACH DISEASE; STOMACH MUCOSA;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; GASTRIC MUCOSA; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; STOMACH DISEASES;

EID: 0037286373     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021707103590     Document Type: Article

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