A rebuttal to the potential anti-tumour benefit of Helicobacter pylori-induced neutrophil-activating protein

Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 445-446

  Kountouras, Jannis ^a   Zavos, Christos ^a   Gavalas, Emmanuel ^a   Deretzi, Georgia ^a   Tsona, Afroditi ^a   Katsinelos, Panagiotis ^a   Grigoriadis, Savas ^a   Pilpilidis, Ioannis ^a   Tzilves, Dimitrios ^a   Vardaka, Elizabeth ^a   Mantzoukis, Konstantinos ^a   Polyzos, Stergios A ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AQUAPORIN; AQUAPORIN 4 ANTIBODY; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHEMOATTRACTANT; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 8; LYMPHOTOXIN; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE; NEUTROPHIL ACTIVATING PROTEIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR; BCG VACCINE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; BLADDER CANCER; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BLOOD VESSEL PERMEABILITY; CANCER INHIBITION; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; DEMYELINATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG EFFICACY; ENZYME INDUCTION; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; INTERFERON PRODUCTION; LETTER; LEUKOCYTE MIGRATION; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MYELOOPTIC NEUROPATHY; NERVOUS TISSUE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROPATHY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SCHWANN CELL; STOMACH CANCER; STOMACH CARCINOGENESIS; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TH1 CELL; ANIMAL; BLADDER TUMOR; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; NOTE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BCG VACCINE; FEMALE; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; TH1 CELLS; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84860799993     PISSN: 03407004     EISSN: 14320851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00262-011-1142-z     Document Type: Letter

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