Helicobacter pylori targets cancer-associated apical-junctional constituents - a podcast by BMJ Group
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Helicobacter pylori strains that express the a protein that increases the risk of gastric cancer. However, the precise mechanisms through which the cancer risk is heightened have not been fully investigated and understood.
In this podcast Dr Mairi McLean talks to Dr Lydia Wroblewski from the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine about the study her group conducted to define mechanisms through which H. pylori modulates expression of the cancer-associated tight junction protein claudin-7.
To read the full paper please visit http://gut.bmj.com/content/64/5/720.full
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