Cytokine serum levels in patients with chronic HCV infection

Journal of Clinical Laboratory Analysis

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 40-46

  Spanakis, Nick E ^a   Garinis, George A ^a   Alexopoulos, Evangelos C ^b   Patrinos, George P ^c,e   Menounos, Panayotis G ^c   Sklavounou, Alexandra ^d   Manolis, Evangelos N ^d   Gorgoulis, Vassilis G ^b   Valis, Dimitrios ^a  

^a Medicanalysis Institute of Molecular Biology Applications   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^c Nursing Military Academy   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^e ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Hepatitis C virus; Interleukin; Serum; Transforming growth factor 1; Tumor necrosis factor viremyia

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; LIVER ENZYME; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL; VIREMIA;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CYTOKINES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; LIVER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

EID: 0036147503     PISSN: 08878013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcla.2060     Document Type: Article

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