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Marcelo S P Ladeira1, Roberta C A Bueno, Bruna Fornazari Dos Santos, Carla L S Pinto, Renato P Prado, Marcela G Silveira, Maria A M Rodrigues, Waldemar Bartchewsky, José Pedrazzoli, Marcelo Lima Ribeiro, Daisy M F Salvadori.
Abstract
The aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship among oxidative DNA damage, density of Helicobacter pylori and the relevance of cagA, vacA and iceA genotypes of H. pylori. Gastric epithelial cells were isolated from 24 uninfected patients, 42 H. pylori infected patients with gastritis, and 61 patients with gastric cancer. Oxidative DNA damage was analyzed by the Comet assay, the density of H. pylori was measured by real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR), and allelic variants of cagA, vacA and iceA were identified using the PCR. Infected patients by Helicobacter pylori cagA(+), vacAs1 m1 and iceA1 genotype showed higher levels of oxidative DNA damage than infected patients with H. pylori cagA(-), vacAs2 m2 and iceA2 genotypes and uninfected patients. Density of H. pylori did not influence oxidative DNA damage. Our results indicate that H. pylori genotype is more relevant than density for oxidative DNA damage.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID： 17520364 DOI： 10.1007/s10620-007-9850-0
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Dig Dis Sci ISSN： 0163-2116 Impact factor: 3.199