Virological and immunological determinants of intrahepatic virus-specific CD8+ T-cell failure in chronic hepatitis C virus infection

Hepatology

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1824-1836

  Neumann Haefelin, Christoph ^a   Timm, Jörg ^b   Spangenberg, Hans Christian ^a   Wischniowski, Natalie ^a   Nazarova, Natalja ^a   Kersting, Nadine ^a   Roggendorf, Michael ^b   Allen, Todd M ^c   Blum, Hubert E ^a   Thimme, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HLA B ANTIGEN; VIRUS PROTEIN; EPITOPE; GAMMA INTERFERON; HLA ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS C; HLA SYSTEM; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; AGED; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; IMMUNOLOGY; LIVER; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PATHOLOGY; VIROLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; EPITOPES, T-LYMPHOCYTE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HLA ANTIGENS; HLA-B ANTIGENS; HUMANS; INTERFERON TYPE II; LIVER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 46249090636     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.22242     Document Type: Article

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