Code
01SC2411
Duration
01 March 2011 → 30 September 2014
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Natural sciences
- Microbiology
- Systems biology
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Medical and health sciences
- Immunology
- Laboratory medicine
- Microbiology
- Immunology
- Laboratory medicine
- Microbiology
- Public health care
- Public health sciences
- Public health services
- Immunology
- Laboratory medicine
- Microbiology
Keywords
gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase
cytotoxicity
gastric pathology
helicobacter suis
T-cell proliferation
Project description
The role of H. suis gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase in gastric epithelial cell death, inhibition of T-cell proliferation and induction of gastric pathology will be studied. Other virulence mechanisms involved in death of host cells will also be identified.