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Imbalance between CD56+bright and CD56+dim natural killer cell subsets in the liver of patients with recurrent hepatitis C after liver transplantation.
Biomedical research (Tokyo, Japan) - 1 Jan 2014
Yamagiwa Satoshi, Sato Yoshinobu, Ichida Takafumi, Setsu Toru, Tominaga Kentaro, Kamimura Hiroteru, Tsuchiya Atsunori, Takamura Masaaki, Matsuda Yasunobu, Aoyagi Yutaka
Abstract excerpt
Progressive liver fibrosis remains a major problem for patients with recurrent chronic hepatitis C(CHC) after liver transplantation (LT). However, the involvement of natural killer (NK) and natural killer T (NKT) cells, which predominate in the liver, in recurrent CHC after LT remains unclear.In the present study, we investigated the status of NK and NKT cells in the liver and peripheral blood obtained from 10...
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