Deficiency of antibody response to hypervariable region of hepatitis C virus in patients with chronic hepatitis C

Journal of Hepatology

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 649-657

  Yoshioka, Kentaro ^a   Higashi, Yasuyuki ^a   Tanaka, Kazuma ^a   Aiyama, Toshiyuki ^a   Takayanagi, Masahiro ^a   Okumura, Akihiko ^a   Iwata, Kazuo ^a   Nagai, Yoshiyuki ^b   Kakumu, Shinichi ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antibody response; Glutathione S transferase; Hepatitis C virus; Hypervariable region

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; BETA INTERFERON; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; RECOMBINANT ALPHA2A INTERFERON; RECOMBINANT ALPHA2B INTERFERON; RIBAVIRIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030175958     PISSN: 01688278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-8278(96)80259-5     Document Type: Article

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