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Correlation between Helicobacter pylori infection and IL-18 mRNA expression in human gastric biopsy specimens
1Dipartimento di Patologia e Microbiologia Sperimentale, Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia, Università di Messina, Messina, Italy. mtfera@unime.it
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
|July 4, 2002
Abstract:
Our data indicate that H. pylori infection is associated with active interleukin-18 production in patients with chronic gastritis. Different cell types appear to be involved in this activity and may play a role in the development of immunopathologic damage.