Helicobacter pylori infection: corpus stomach biopsies
Summary:
Analysis of stomach biopsies at different stages of Helicobacter pylori (HB) infection. Many gastric cancers believed caused by chronic HB infection and atrophic corpus gastritis predisposes to gastric cancer development. Results provide insight into mechanisms underlying atrophic HB infection.
Nookaew I, Thorell K, Worah K, Wang S et al. Transcriptome signatures in Helicobacter pylori-infected mucosa identifies acidic mammalian chitinase loss as a corpus atrophy marker. BMC Med Genomics 2013 Oct 11;6:41. PMID: 24119614