Replication of hepatitis C virus in peripheral blood mononuclear cells in patients with chronic hepatitis C treated with pegylated interferon alpha and ribavirin 

Replication of hepatitis C virus in peripheral blood mononuclear cells in patients with chronic hepatitis C treated with pegylated interferon alpha and ribavirin 

Introduction: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a primarily hepatotropic virus, but hepatocytes are not the only localization of its replication. It is still unclear if extrahepatic HCV replication, measured as the detection of HCV RNA negative strand in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) before in...

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Main Authors: Malgorzata Inglot, Tomasz Pawlowski, Aleksandra Szymczak, Krzysztof Malyszczak, Malgorzata Zalewska, Marek Radkowski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Index Copernicus International S.A. 2013-03-01
Series:Postępy Higieny i Medycyny Doświadczalnej
Subjects:
pegylated interferon alpha
PBMC
negative HCV RNA strand
extrahepatic replication
HCV
Online Access:http://journals.indexcopernicus.com/fulltxt.php?ICID=1038785

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