Immunology

Th-1 and Hepatitis are Key for Impaired Response in Hemodialysis Patients

Published in Blood Weekly, November 2nd, 2000

A study in a recent edition of the journal Cytokine reported that hemodialysis patients have reduced production of certain cytokines and that the presence of hepatitis C virus influences the way in which those cytokines are abnormally expressed.

J. Martin and associates at the Foundation for the Study of Viral Hepatitis in Madrid, Spain, selected several different groups of individuals to participate in the study: 15 healthy volunteers, 11 renal disease patients not on dialysis and without HCV, 13 hemodialysis patients without HCV, 24 hemodialysis patients with HCV, and 25 non-hemodialysis patients with HCV.

Researchers noted that...

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