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Helicobacter pylori is causally associated with gastritis and gastric cancer. Some developing countries with a high prevalence of infection have high gastric cancer rates, whereas in others, these rates are low. The progression of helicobacter-induced gastritis and gastric atrophy mediated by type 1 T-helper cells may be modulated by concurrent parasitic infection. Here, in mice with concurrent helminth infection, helicobacter-associated gastric atrophy was reduced considerably despite chronic inflammation and high helicobacter colonization. This correlated with a substantial reduction in mRNA for cytokines and chemokines associated with a gastric inflammatory response of type 1 T-helper cells. Thus, concurrent enteric helminth infection can attenuate gastric atrophy, a premalignant lesion.
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We thank D. Podolsky and A. Luster for critical review of the manuscript. This work was supported by National Institutes of Health grants AI37740 (J.G.F.), CA67529 (J.G.F.) CA674463 (T.C.W. and J.G.F) and DK47017 (C.N.A.) and the Center for the Study of Inflammatory Bowel Disease at Massachusetts General Hospital (DK43351). H.N.S. was supported by a training fellowship from the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America.
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Fox, J., Beck, P., Dangler, C. et al. Concurrent enteric helminth infection modulates inflammation and gastric immune responses and reduces helicobacter-induced gastric atrophy. Nat Med 6, 536–542 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/75015
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