Hepatitis c virus-specific t-cell-derived transforming growth factor beta is associated with slow hepatic fibrogenesis

Hepatology

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2094-2105

  Li, Shaoyong ^a,b   Vriend, Lianne E M ^a,c   Nasser, Imad A ^a   Popov, Yury ^a   Afdhal, Nezam H ^a   Koziel, Margaret J ^a   Schuppan, Detlef ^a,d   Exley, Mark A ^a   Alatrakchi, Nadia ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORE PROTEIN; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSPOT ASSAY; FEMALE; FIBROGENESIS; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER; LIVER FIBROSIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STELLATE CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ADULT; AGED; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; COLLAGEN TYPE I; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATIC STELLATE CELLS; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; INTERFERON-GAMMA; INTERLEUKIN-10; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE 1; MIDDLE AGED; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; VIRAL CORE PROTEINS;

EID: 84870514165     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: 15273350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.25951     Document Type: Article

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