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Peripheral CD27-CD21- B-cells represent an exhausted lymphocyte population in hepatitis C cirrhosis.
Clinical immunology (Orlando, Fla.) - 1 Feb 2014
Doi Hiroyoshi, Tanoue Shiroh, Kaplan David E
Abstract excerpt
UNLABELLED: Hepatitis C cirrhosis is associated with a profound disappearance of memory B-cells. We sought to determine if this loss is associated with the expansion of the CD27(-)CD21(-) tissue-like memory B-cells with features of B-cell exhaustion. To this end, we quantified the frequency of CD27(-)CD21(-) B-cells in healthy, non-cirrhotic HCV-infected, and cirrhotic patients. We examined the expression of...
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