Glaucoma and Helicobacter pylori: Eyes "wide open"!

Digestive and Liver Disease

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 962-963

  Kountouras, Jannis ^a   Zavos, Christos ^a   Katsinelos, Panagiotis ^a   Vardaka, Elizabeth ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON 13; CYTOKINE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; CYTOKINE RELEASE; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HUMAN; LETTER; LEUKOCYTE AGGREGATION; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION; UREA BREATH TEST;

ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS;

EID: 84867006016     PISSN: 15908658     EISSN: 18783562     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dld.2012.05.001     Document Type: Letter

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