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Defective Jak-Stat activation in hepatoma cells is associated with hepatitis C viral IFN-alpha resistance.
Journal of interferon & cytokine research : the official journal of the International Society for Interferon and Cytokine Research - 1 Sept 2005
Zhu Haizhen, Nelson David R, Crawford James M, Liu Chen
Abstract excerpt
Interferon-alpha (IFN-alpha) has been widely used to treat viral infections and certain types of cancers. Large numbers of patients with chronic hepatitis C viral (HCV) infection do not respond to IFN and ribavirin combination therapy, and the majority of patients do not respond to IFN monotherapy. The underlying mechanisms of HCV nonresponse to IFN are unknown. In this report, using a HCV subgenomic replicon...
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