Helicobacter pylori might be a potential therapeutic target in epilepsy

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 763-

  Kountouras, Jannis ^a   Zavos, Christos ^a   Deretzi, Georgia ^a   Polyzos, Stergios A ^a   Katsinelos, Panagiotis ^a   Anastasiadou, Kyriaki ^a   Stergiopoulos, Christos ^a   Pilpilidis, Ioannis ^a   Klonizakis, Philippos ^a   Boura, Panagiota ^a   Tzilves, Dimitrios ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GELATINASE B; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 6; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTOGENESIS; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOMODULATION; LETTER; MAST CELL; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROGNOSIS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AUTOPHAGY; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; BONE MARROW CELLS; EPILEPSY; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-1; INTERLEUKIN-6; MAST CELLS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; PROGNOSIS; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

HELICOBACTER PYLORI;

EID: 79954423278     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2011.02.004     Document Type: Letter

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