Concentrations of soluble Fas and soluble Fas ligand as indicators of programmed cell death among patients coinfected with human immunodeficiency virus and hepatitis C virus

Viral Immunology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 570-575

  Lapinski, Tadeusz Wojciech ^a   Jaroszewicz, Jerzy ^a   Wiercinska Drapalo, Alicja ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF BIALYSTOK   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD3 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; FAS ANTIGEN; FAS LIGAND; VIRUS RNA;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; APOPTOSIS; CD3+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ISOLATION; T LYMPHOCYTE; VIRUS LOAD; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADULT; ANTIGENS, CD95; APOPTOSIS; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; FAS LIGAND PROTEIN; FEMALE; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; VIRAL LOAD;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1;

EID: 33750944789     PISSN: 08828245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vim.2006.19.570     Document Type: Conference Paper

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