Helicobacter pylori virulence and the diversity of gastric cancer in Asia

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 57, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1445-1453

  Nguyen, Lam Tung ^a   Uchida, Tomohisa ^a   Murakami, Kazunari ^a   Fujioka, Toshio ^a   Moriyama, Masatsugu ^a  

^a OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CAGA PROTEIN; CAGPAI PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ASIA; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; DEPHOSPHORYLATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HOST CELL; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STOMACH CANCER; STOMACH CARCINOGENESIS;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; ASIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENOMIC ISLANDS; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; MALE; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 57749200155     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.2008/003160-0     Document Type: Review

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