Armando Gamboa-Dominguez, Tom Ubbelohde, Milena Saqui-Salces, Luis Romano-Mazzoti, Minerva Cervantes, Claudia Domínguez-Fonseca, Maria de la Luz Estreber, Guillermo M Ruíz-Palacios
Our aim was to determine if salt and stress enhance Helicobacter pylori (Hp) lesions in Meriones unguiculatus. Two hundred seventy-eight pathogen-free gerbils were allocated to seven groups: Hp-Sydney strain (45), 8% higher-salt diet (38), stress (60% space reduction/water immersion; 36), Hp + salt (33), Hp + stress (34), N-methyl-N-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine (34), and sham (58). Gerbils were sacrificed at 1 week (67), 12 weeks (73), 52 weeks (65), and 68 weeks (73). Sydney, Padova, and Lauren classifications were blindly used...
June 2007: Digestive Diseases and Sciences