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Infection and Immunity, June 2003, p. 3357-3360, Vol. 71, No. 6
0019-9567/03/$08.00+0 DOI: 10.1128/IAI.71.6.3357-3360.2003
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Microbiology and Tumor Biology Center, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden,1 Aventis Pasteur, Marcy L'Etoile, France2
Received 23 December 2002/ Returned for modification 14 February 2003/ Accepted 24 February 2003
The gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori is known to activate multiple proinflammatory signaling pathways in epithelial cells. In this study, we addressed the question of whether expression of the interleukin-8 receptors IL-8RA (CXCR1) and IL-8RB (CXCR2) is upregulated in H. pylori-infected human gastric biopsy samples. Biopsy samples from patients infected with H. pylori strains harboring the cag pathogenicity island (PAI) expressed larger amounts of both receptors. In addition, IL-8RB expression was induced in the gastric epithelial cell line AGS upon infection with a clinical isolate containing the cag PAI, while a strain lacking the cag PAI did not. Our finding suggests that gastric epithelial cells express IL-8R in response to H. pylori infection.
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