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Helicobacter pylori CagA and VacA are two critical virulence factors that modulate disease severity in the infected host. The following chapter outlines methods employed to study the effects of these virulence factors on several key signaling pathways in epithelial cells.
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NLJ is supported by a Canadian Institute for Health Research operating grant (No. 17886).
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Raju, D., Rizzuti, D., Jones, N.L. (2012). Cell Culture Assays to Evaluate Bacterial Toxicity and Virulence. In: Houghton, J. (eds) Helicobacter Species. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 921. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-62703-005-2_11
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