The relationship between plasma and gastric ghrelin levels and strain diversity in Helicobacter pylori virulence [5]

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 100, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1425-1427

  Isomoto, Hajime ^a   Nishi, Yoshito ^a   Ohnita, Ken ^a   Mizuta, Yohei ^a   Kohno, Shigeru ^a   Ueno, Hiroaki ^b   Nakazato, Masamitsu ^b  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GHRELIN; PEPSINOGEN I; PEPSINOGEN II;

ADULT; AGED; ATROPHIC GASTRITIS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPEPSIA; FEMALE; GASTRITIS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; STOMACH ANTRUM; STOMACH CANCER; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; FEMALE; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEPTIDE HORMONES; RNA, MESSENGER; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STOMACH; VIRULENCE;

EID: 21344438630     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.2005.41929_7.x     Document Type: Letter

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