Increased frequencies of activating natural killer receptors are associated with liver injury in individuals who do not eliminate hepatitis C virus

Tissue Antigens

Volumn 69, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2007, Pages 109-111

  Paladino, N ^a,b   Flores, A C ^a   Marcos, C Y ^a   Fainboim, H ^c   Theiler, G ^a   Arruvito, L ^a   Williams, F ^d   Middleton, D ^d,e   Fainboim, L ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL DE CLÍNICAS JOSÉ DE SAN MARTÍN   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^c HOSPITAL F J MUÑIZ   (Argentina)

^d BELFAST CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cirrhosis; Hepatitis C virus; HLA; Killer immunoglobulin like receptor; Natural killer cells

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; HLA B ANTIGEN; KILLER CELL IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIKE RECEPTOR; LIVER ENZYME; NATURAL KILLER CELL RECEPTOR; RNA;

ADULT; AGED; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HLA-B ANTIGENS; HUMANS; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC; RNA, VIRAL;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

EID: 34247269818     PISSN: 00012815     EISSN: 13990039     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0039.2006.762_7.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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