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Impaired functional capacities of liver dendritic cells from murine hepatitis B virus (HBV) carriers: relevance to low HBV-specific immune responses.
Clinical and experimental immunology - 1 Jan 2005
Hasebe A, Akbar S M F, Furukawa S, Horiike N, Onji M
Abstract excerpt
The chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) carrier exhibits ongoing replication of HBV and expresses abundant amounts of HBV-related antigens in the liver. However, HBV-specific immune responses are either absent or narrowly focused in these subjects. With the postulation that impaired functional abilities of liver dendritic cells (DCs) might be responsible for this, we assessed the functions of liver DCs in HBV...
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