Patients with chronic hepatitis C express a high percentage of CD4+CXCR5+ T follicular helper cells

Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1048-1056

  Feng, Junyan ^a   Hu, Xiaoli ^b   Guo, Hui ^a   Sun, Xiguang ^a   Wang, Juan ^a   Xu, Lijun ^a   Jiang, Zhenyu ^a   Xu, Bingchuan ^a   Niu, Junqi ^a   Jiang, Yanfang ^a  

^a JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Heilongjiang Province Hospital   (China)

Author keywords

CD4+CXCR5+ TFH cells; HCV; ICOS; PD 1; Spontaneously resolved HCV infection

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; PEGINTERFERON ALPHA; PROGRAMMED DEATH 1 RECEPTOR; RIBAVIRIN; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD SAMPLING; CD4+ CXCR5+ T FOLLICULAR HELPER CELL; CELL FUNCTION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HELPER CELL; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPONTANEUOSLY RESOLVED HEPATITIS C VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS LOAD;

ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENOTYPE; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; INDUCIBLE T-CELL CO-STIMULATOR PROTEIN; INTERFERONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGRAMMED CELL DEATH 1 RECEPTOR; RECEPTORS, CXCR5; RNA, VIRAL; T-LYMPHOCYTES, HELPER-INDUCER; VIRAL LOAD;

EID: 84867550856     PISSN: 09441174     EISSN: 14355922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00535-012-0568-1     Document Type: Article

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