Chronic Hepatitis C Virus
Research from National Institute for Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases has provided new information about chronic hepatitis C virus
Published in Hepatitis Weekly, May 24th, 2010
Data detailed in 'Natural killer cells are polarized toward cytotoxicity in chronic hepatitis C in an interferon-alfa-dependent manner' have been presented. "Patients with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection display great variability in disease activity and progression. Although virus-specific adaptive immune responses have been characterized extensively and found to be impaired in chronic hepatitis C, the role of innate immune responses in disease activity and progression of chronic hepatitis C is not well understood," researchers in the United States report.
"We studied 42 HCV-infected patients and 12 healthy uninfected controls. We found an increased frequency...
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Source: Hepatitis Weekly (2010-05-24)
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