Evidence map›Paper›PMID 25278677›Full record

ReviewWorld journal of gastroenterology2014

Effect of Helicobacter pylori on gastric epithelial cells.

Shatha Alzahrani, Taslima T Lina, Jazmin Gonzalez, Irina V Pinchuk, Ellen J Beswick, Victor E Reyes

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In one paragraph

Review in World journal of gastroenterology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 103 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
103citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
5.0field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

103 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 167 citations in OpenAlex.

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43 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Shatha AlzahraniShatha Alzahrani, Taslima T Lina, Irina V Pinchuk, Victor E Reyes, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555, United States.
Taslima T LinaShatha Alzahrani, Taslima T Lina, Irina V Pinchuk, Victor E Reyes, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555, United States.
Jazmin GonzalezShatha Alzahrani, Taslima T Lina, Irina V Pinchuk, Victor E Reyes, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555, United States.
Irina V PinchukShatha Alzahrani, Taslima T Lina, Irina V Pinchuk, Victor E Reyes, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555, United States.
Ellen J BeswickShatha Alzahrani, Taslima T Lina, Irina V Pinchuk, Victor E Reyes, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555, United States.
Victor E ReyesShatha Alzahrani, Taslima T Lina, Irina V Pinchuk, Victor E Reyes, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555, United States.
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston · US

Funding

University of New Mexico Clinical and Translational Science CenterUL1TR000041 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH SCIS CTR · PI LARSON, RICHARD S · 2012 to 2014
$9.8M
Immune Evasion by H. pyloriR56DK090090 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MED BR GALVESTON · PI REYES, VICTOR E. · 2010 to 2010
$395k
Potential Role of H. Pylori-induced MIF in Gastric CancerK22AI068712 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MED BR GALVESTON · PI BESWICK, ELLEN J. · 2008 to 2009
$269k
NCATS NIH HHS 8UL1TR000041NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR000041NCRR NIH HHS 1U54RR02614NIAID NIH HHS K22 AI068712NIAID NIH HHS K22AI68712NIDDK NIH HHS R56 DK090090NIDDK NIH HHS R56DK090090-01
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The gastrointestinal epithelium has cells with features that make them a powerful line of defense in innate mucosal immunity. Features that allow gastrointestinal epithelial cells to contribute in innate defense include cell barrier integrity, cell turnover, autophagy, and innate immune responses. Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) is a spiral shape gram negative bacterium that selectively colonizes the gastric epithelium of more than half of the world's population. The infection invariably becomes persistent due to highly specialized mechanisms that facilitate H. pylori's avoidance of this initial line of host defense as well as adaptive immune mechanisms. The host response is thus unsuccessful in clearing the infection and as a result becomes established as a persistent infection promoting chronic inflammation. In some individuals the associated inflammation contributes to ulcerogenesis or neoplasia. H. pylori has an array of different strategies to interact intimately with epithelial cells and manipulate their cellular processes and functions. Among the multiple aspects that H. pylori affects in gastric epithelial cells are their distribution of epithelial junctions, DNA damage, apoptosis, proliferation, stimulation of cytokine production, and cell transformation. Some of these processes are initiated as a result of the activation of signaling mechanisms activated on binding of H. pylori to cell surface receptors or via soluble virulence factors that gain access to the epithelium. The multiple responses by the epithelium to the infection contribute to pathogenesis associated with H. pylori.

Indexed as

AnimalsBacterial AdhesionEpithelial CellsGastric MucosaGenotypeHelicobacter InfectionsHelicobacter pyloriHumansImmune EvasionImmunity, InnateImmunity, MucosalMicrobial ViabilitySignal TransductionVirulenceApoptosisChronic inflammationGastric cancerGastric diseasesGastric epithelial cellsHelicobacter pyloriProinflammatory cytokines

Identifiers

PMID25278677
PMCPMC4177462
OpenAlexW2039837411

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