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WORLD JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY
Volume 20, Issue 22, Pages 6860-6868Publisher
BAISHIDENG PUBLISHING GROUP INC
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v20.i22.6860
Keywords
UreC; CagA; Dysplasia; Intestinal metaplasia; Gastric adenocarcinoma; Tobacco chewing
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- Department of Science and Technology
- ICMR Senior Research Fellowship [3/2/2/11/2010/NCD-III]
- Department of Biotechnology
- Indian Council of Medical Research, Government of India
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AIM: To investigate the low gastric cancer incidence rate relative to the highly prevalent Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection; data relevant to H. pylori infection during gastric carcinogenesis in Indian patients is currently lacking. METHODS: The present study examines the prevalence of H. pylori infection in DNA derived from 156 endoscopic gastric biopsies of different disease groups that represent gastric pre-cancer [intestinal metaplasia (n = 15), dysplasia (n = 15)], cancer [diffuse adenocarcinoma (n = 44), intestinal adenocarcinoma (n = 21)], and symptomatic but histopathologically-normal controls (n = 61). This was done by generic ureC polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and cagA-specific PCR that could specifically identify the carcinogenic H. pylori strain. RESULTS: Our analysis showed the presence of H. pylori infection in 61% of symptomatic histopathologically-normal individuals, however only 34% of control tissues were harboring the cagA(+) H. pylori strain. A similar proportion of H. pylori infection (52%) and cagA (26%) positivity was observed in the tumor tissue of the gastric cancer group. In comparison, H. pylori infection (90%) and cagA positivity (73%) were the highest in gastric pre-cancer lesions. In relation to tobacco and alcohol abuse, H. pylori infection showed an association with tobacco chewing, whereas we did not observe any association between tobacco smoking or alcohol abuse with prevalence of H. pylori infection in the tissue of any of the patient groups studied. CONCLUSION: High incidence of H. pylori infection and carcinogenic cagA positive strain in pre-cancer lesions during gastric carcinogenesis may be associated with the habit of chewing tobacco. (C) 2014 Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. All rights reserved.
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