[HTML][HTML] Helicobacter pylori invades the gastric mucosa and translocates to the gastric lymph nodes

T Ito, D Kobayashi, K Uchida, T Takemura… - Laboratory …, 2008 - Elsevier
Helicobacter pylori has been considered to be non-invasive and to rarely infiltrate the gastric
mucosa, even though there is an active Th1 immune response in the lamina propria of the H.
pylori-infected stomach. To elucidate whether H. pylori invades the lamina propria and
translocates to the gastric lymph nodes, we examined H. pylori in formalin-fixed and paraffin-
embedded tissue sections of stomach and gastric lymph nodes obtained from 51 cancer
patients using real-time PCR and immunohistochemistry (IHC) with a novel anti-H. pylori …