Ribavirin exerts differential effects on functions of Cd4+ Th1, Th2, and regulatory T cell clones in hepatitis C.

Ribavirin improves outcomes of therapy in chronic hepatitis C but its mode of action has still remained unclear. Since ribavirin has been proposed to modulate the host's T cell responses, we studied its direct effects on CD4(+) T cell clones with diverse functional polarization which had been g...

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Main Authors: Bettina Langhans, Hans Dieter Nischalke, Simone Arndt, Ingrid Braunschweiger, Jacob Nattermann, Tilman Sauerbruch, Ulrich Spengler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/22848715/pdf/?tool=EBI