Spontaneous clearance of chronic hepatitis C after liver transplantation: Are hepatitis C virus-specific T cell responses the clue?

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1225-1227

  Suneetha, P V ^a   Mederacke, Ingmar ^a   Heim, Albert ^a   Bastürk, Murat ^a   Cornberg, Markus ^a   Strassburg, Christian P ^a   Manns, Michael P ^a   Wedemeyer, Heiner ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; VIRUS RNA;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; AGED; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; CASE REPORT; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMODIALYSIS; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY FAILURE; LETTER; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MONOTHERAPY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PANCYTOPENIA; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERAPY EFFECT; TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC PORTOSYSTEMIC SHUNT; VIRUS IMMUNITY;

HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; REMISSION, SPONTANEOUS; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 49649094940     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.21559     Document Type: Letter

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