Perspective: Alpha-bugs, their microbial partners, and the link to colon cancer

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 203, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 306-311

  Sears, Cynthia L ^a   Pardoll, Drew M ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; DIPHTHERIA TOXIN; GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 17; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 8; STAT3 PROTEIN; STAT6 PROTEIN; TETANUS TOXIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UVOMORULIN; WNT PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENESIS; CLONORCHIS SINENSIS; COLON CANCER; COLON MUCOSA; CROHN DISEASE; DIARRHEA; GENE MUTATION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MUCOSAL IMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; OPISTHORCHIS VIVERRINI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; REVIEW; SCHISTOSOMA HEMATOBIUM; SHIGELLOSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TH17 CELL; TH2 CELL; WART VIRUS;

BACTERIA; COLON; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS;

EID: 79751496164     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jinfdis/jiq061     Document Type: Review

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