Helicobacter pylori moves through mucus by reducing mucin viscoelasticity

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 34, 2009, Pages 14321-14326

  Celli, Jonathan P ^a,d   Turner, Bradley S ^b   Afdhal, Nezam H ^b   Keates, Sarah ^b   Ghiran, Ionita ^b   Kelly, Ciaran P ^b   Ewoldt, Randy H ^c   McKinley, Gareth H ^c   So, Peter ^c   Erramilli, Shyamsunder ^a   Bansil, Rama ^a  

^a Boston University   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial motility; Gelation; H. pylori; pH; Rheology

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; FLUORESCENT DYE; STOMACH MUCIN; UREASE;

ACIDITY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CELL MOTILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW KINETICS; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GEL; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HYDROLYSIS; MUCUS; NONHUMAN; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; STOMACH; SWINE; VISCOELASTICITY;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ELASTICITY; FLUORESCEINS; GASTRIC MUCINS; GASTRIC MUCOSA; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MUCUS; RHEOLOGY; SWINE; UREA; UREASE; VISCOSITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HELICOBACTER PYLORI; SUS;

EID: 70149122145     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0903438106     Document Type: Article

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