The hypothesis that Helicobacter pylori predisposes to Alzheimer’s disease is biologically plausible

Abstract There is epidemiological evidence that H. pylori might predispose to Alzheimer’s disease. To understand the cellular processes potentially linking such unrelated events, we incubated the human gastric cells MNK-28 with the H. pylori peptide Hp(2-20). We then monitored the activated genes by...

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Main Authors: Felice Contaldi, Federico Capuano, Andrea Fulgione, Riccardo Aiese Cigliano, Walter Sanseverino, Domenico Iannelli, Chiara Medaglia, Rosanna Capparelli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017-08-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-07532-x