And Joe was telling me that he used to eat
pylori-infected gastric parietal cells
Mechanical turbulence from a direct stream causes shear stress at the air-liquid interface, which can denature the peptide's secondary structure or cause aggregation of hydrophobic segments
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The question is not whether the mechanism makes sense but whether clinical trials will confirm the magnitude of benefit suggested by preclinical and early observational data
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