Authors: Kapetanakis Nikolaos Kountouras Jannis Zavos Christos Anastasiadou Kyriaki Tsarouchas George Michael Stavros Gavalas Emmanuel Tsiaousi Elena Polyzos Stergios A Venizelos Ioannis Nikolaidou Christina Vardaka Elizabeth
Publish Date: 2013/02/01
Volume: 19, Issue: 2, Pages: E27-E29
Abstract
Nikolaos Kapetanakis Jannis Kountouras Christos Zavos Kyriaki Anastasiadou George Tsarouchas Stavros Michael Emmanuel Gavalas Elena Tsiaousi Stergios A Polyzos Ioannis Venizelos Christina Nikolaidou Elizabeth Vardaka Potential Oncogenic Properties of Mobilized Stem Cells in a Subpopulation of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients Infected with Helicobacter pylori Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Volume 19 Issue 2 1 February 2013 Pages E27–E29 https//doiorg/101002/ibd22911Marlicz et al1 concluded that Crohns disease CD triggers the mobilization of various types of stem cells such as hematopoietic stem progenitor cells into peripheral blood in patients suffering from this disease while the significance and precise role of these mobilized cells in repair of damaged intestine requires further study However the authors did not discuss the possibility of potential oncogenic properties of the mobilized stem cells at least in the subgroup of patients possibly infected with Helicobacter pylori H pyloriIn this regard although relative data indicate an absence or inverse association between H pylori and inflammatory bowel disease IBD the prevalence of H pylori infection in the IBD patients appears to be 382–47 in Europe2 Moreover enterohepatic and gastric Helicobacter species have been documented in fecal specimens from children with CD using polymerase
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