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Editorial
. 2007 Mar;132(3):1177-80.
doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2007.01.068.

Intracellular Helicobacter pylori and gastric carcinogenesis: an "old" frontier worth revisiting

Andre Dubois
Editorial

Intracellular Helicobacter pylori and gastric carcinogenesis: an "old" frontier worth revisiting

Andre Dubois. Gastroenterology. 2007 Mar.
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Detection of intracellular Helicobacter pylori in patients with gastric adenocarcinoma. Sections of formaldehyde-fixed and paraffin-embedded biopsies were prepared using in situ hybridization and a probe recognizing either cagA (A, B) or babA (C, D), and were counterstained with nuclear fast red as described. The blue stain of H pylori mRNA expression demonstrates the presence of the bacteria between and within the pink host cells. Neoplastic cells are characterized by large elongated nuclei and increased nuclear-to-cytoplasmic ratio and are associated to inflammatory cells (A, B). In other patients, neoplastic cells have marked hyperchromatism of nuclei and increased nuclear-to-cytoplasm ratio (C) or are poorly differentiated with pleomorphism, patchy hyperchromatism of nuclei, variable nuclear-to-cytoplasm ratio, and cytoplasmic vacuoles (D; arrows). Both in situ hybridization (this figure) and TEM with immunogold (see pages 1009–1023) specifically identify H pylori and they can complement each other. The latter allows precise ultrastructural analysis of the relation between H pylori and host cells and the former permits screening of a large number of host cells and their spatial relation with the bacteria. Bars: 10 µM. Biopsy specimens provided by Dr V. Simko (Brooklyn VA Medical Center, Veterans Administration New York Harbor Healthcare System, Brooklyn, New York). Figure prepared by C. Semino-Mora, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD.
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