TCF1+ hepatitis C virus-specific CD8+ T cells are maintained after cessation of chronic antigen stimulation

Nature Communications

Volumn 8, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Wieland, Dominik ^a,b   Kemming, Janine ^a,b   Schuch, Anita ^a,b   Emmerich, Florian ^a   Knolle, Percy ^c   Neumann Haefelin, Christoph ^a   Held, Werner ^d   Zehn, Dietmar ^e   Hofmann, Maike ^a   Thimme, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD39 ANTIGEN; DASABUVIR PLUS OMBITASVIR PLUS PARITAPREVIR PLUS RIBAVIRIN PLUS RITONAVIR; DASABUVIR PLUS OMBITASVIR PLUS PARITAPREVIR PLUS RITONAVIR; EOMESODERMIN; INTERLEUKIN 7 RECEPTOR; LEDIPASVIR PLUS RIBAVIRIN PLUS SOFOSBUVIR; LEDIPASVIR PLUS SOFOSBUVIR; PROGRAMMED DEATH 1 RECEPTOR; PROTEIN BCL 2; RIBAVIRIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 7; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRAL PROTEIN; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 1ALPHA; HNF1A PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ANTIGEN; CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; HEPATITIS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; PHYSIOLOGY; VIRAL DISEASE; VIRUS;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL FATE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; MEMORY T LYMPHOCYTE; MIDDLE AGED; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; VIRAL CLEARANCE; YOUNG ADULT; CHRONIC HEPATITIS C; DRUG EFFECT; HEPACIVIRUS; IMMUNOLOGICAL MEMORY; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; VIROLOGY;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; FEMALE; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 1-ALPHA; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85019630507     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms15050     Document Type: Article

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