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Antiviral effect of lymphoblastoid interferon-alpha on hepatitis C virus in patients with chronic hepatitis type C.
Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology - 1 Jan 2000
Chayama K, Arase Y, Koida I, Tsubota A, Saitoh S, Ikeda K, Matsumoto T, Kanda M, Iwasaki S, Kobayashi M
Abstract excerpt
To study the antiviral effect of lymphoblastoid alpha interferon (IFN) on hepatitis C virus (HCV) we conducted a randomized, controlled trial on 80 patients with chronic hepatitis C using three different doses. Patients were randomly assigned to treatment with 1, 3 or 6 million units of lymphoblastoid IFN-alpha daily for 2 weeks. To assess the antiviral effect of IFN, the amount of HCV present in the serum was...
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