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    • Helicobacter pylori and autoimmune disease: Cause or bystander 

      Smyk, D. S.; Koutsoumpas, A. L.; Mytilinaiou, M. G.; Rigopoulou, E. I.; Sakkas, L. I.; Bogdanos, D. P. (2014)
      Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) is the main cause of chronic gastritis and a major risk factor for gastric cancer. This pathogen has also been considered a potential trigger of gastric autoimmunity, and in particular of ...

    • Infectious triggers of primary biliary cirrhosis: Do we know enough? 

      Smyk, D.; Rigopoulou, E. I.; Zen, Y.; Koutsoumpas, A.; Baum, H.; Bogdanos, D. P. (2011)
      Primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) is an immune mediated liver disease directed against the biliary epithelial cells of the small bile ducts. The disease is characterised by circulating antimitochondrial antibodies (AMA), as ...

    • Peculiar antibody reactivity to human connexin 37 and its microbial mimics in patients with Crohn's disease 

      Koutsoumpas, A.; Polymeros, D.; Tsiamoulos, Z.; Smyk, D.; Karamanolis, G.; Triantafyllou, K.; Rigopoulou, E. I.; Forbes, A.; Vergani, D.; Bogdanos, D. P.; Ladas, S. D. (2011)
      Background/aims: We found that pooled Crohn's disease (CD) sera strongly react with a human gap-junction connexin 37 (Cx37) peptide and tested for anti-Cx37 antibody reactivity in sera from CD patients and controls. We ...

    • Popular and unpopular infectious agents linked to primary biliary cirrhosis 

      Koutsoumpas, A. L.; Kriese, S.; Rigopoulou, E. I. (2012)
      Primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) is a progressive cholestatic liver disease characterized by the autoimmune destruction of the biliary epithelial cells of the small and medium-size bile ducts. The disease affects middle ...