Allergy & Immunology
Hepatitis C virus therapy alters the efforts of natural killer T cells
Published in Gastroenterology Week, November 14th, 2005
According to recent research from Japan, "natural killer T (NKT) cells share features of both classical T cells and NK cells. NKT are heterogenous populations and recognize glycolipids associated with CD1d molecule."
"We investigated Th1/Th2 cytokine production as well as frequency and phenotype of circulating NKT cells in 14 healthy subjects and in patients during therapy with type C chronic hepatitis (CH; 14 cases) and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC; 13 cases)," wrote A. Okumura and colleagues, Aichi Medical University.
"Peripheral blood mononuclear cells...
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