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Immunomodulators, sFas and Fas-L as potential noninvasive predictors of IFN treatment in patients with HCV genotype-4.
Journal of viral hepatitis - 1 Jul 2007
Zekri A R N, Haleem H A, Esmat G E-D, Bahnassy A A, El-Din H M A, Hafez M M, Sharaby A F, Sharaf H, Zakaria M S E-D
Abstract excerpt
Recent studies have indicated that cytokines can be used as markers for disease progression in hepatitis C virus (HCV)-infected patients, therefore this study was conducted to determine the influence of pegylated IFN vs standard IFN on interleukin-2 receptor (IL-2R), IL-6R, IL-8, TNFR-I, TNFR-II, sFas, and sFas-L in Egyptian patients with chronic hepatitis C genotype 4, as no previous studies have been performed...
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