Impairment of natural killer (NK) cytotoxic activity in hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection

In the present study, we evaluated the NK cell cytotoxic activity in a group of HCV-infected individuals. Although the number of NK cells present in the peripheral blood of the HCV-infected patients was comparable to non-infected individuals, spontaneous NK cytotoxicity was four-fold lower (P < 0.00...

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Published:	1997
Subjects:	natural killer cells hepatitis C virus infection cytotoxicity IL-2 lymphokine-activated killer cells
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10872/12079
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