Helicobacter pylori: A major risk factor for endothelial dysfunction?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 227-228

  Kanbay, Mehmet ^a   Kasapoglu, Benan ^b   Turgut, Faruk ^a   Uz, Ebru ^a   Bavbek, Nuket ^a   Akcay, Ali ^a  

^a FATIH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Turkey)

^b FATIH UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; CYANOCOBALAMIN; CYTOKINE; CYTOTOXIC AGENT; FIBRINOGEN; FOLIC ACID; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; HOMOCYSTEINE; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 6; PYRIDOXINE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD VESSEL; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL STRUCTURE; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ERADICATION THERAPY; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INTESTINE INFECTION; LETTER; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALABSORPTION; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN METABOLISM; RISK FACTOR;

ANIMALS; CYTOKINES; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; VASCULITIS;

HELICOBACTER PYLORI;

EID: 34247564561     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2006.12.001     Document Type: Letter

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