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Phenotypic and functional status of intrahepatic T cells in chronic hepatitis C.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 15 Oct 2006
Wang Jinhui, Holmes Tyson H, de Guevara Laura Ladron, Cheung Ramsey, Wright Teresa L, He Xiao-Song, Greenberg Harry B
Abstract excerpt
Polychromatic flow-cytometric assays were used to analyze paired intrahepatic and peripheral lymphocyte samples from 37 patients with chronic hepatitis C. Compared with peripheral cells, intrahepatic T cells were selectively enriched with CD45RO+ memory T cells but had a lower percentage of CD4+ T cells expressing the differentiation markers CD27 and CD28. The percentage of intrahepatic CD45RO+ and CD28+ T cells...
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