Relationship between vaca toxin and host cell autophagy in helicobacter pylori infection of the human stomach: A few answers, Many questions

Toxins

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2016, Pages

  Ricci, Vittorio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Autophagy; Gastric cancer; Helicobacter pylori; VacA vacuolating toxin

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 43; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR RELATED PROTEIN; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN; ONCOPROTEIN; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; VACUOLATING TOXIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; VACA PROTEIN, HELICOBACTER PYLORI; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

AUTOPHAGOSOME; AUTOPHAGY; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CANCER RISK; CELL DEATH; CELL VACUOLE; DOWN REGULATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HOST CELL; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STOMACH CANCER; STOMACH CARCINOGENESIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; CELL TRANSFORMATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; STOMACH; STOMACH TUMOR; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; AUTOPHAGY; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; STOMACH; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84977601066     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726651     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/toxins8070203     Document Type: Review

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