Inverse relationship of serum hepcidin levels with CD4 cell counts in HIV-infected patients selected from an Indonesian prospective cohort study.

Inverse relationship of serum hepcidin levels with CD4 cell counts in HIV-infected patients selected from an Indonesian prospective cohort study.

BACKGROUND: Distortion of iron homeostasis may contribute to the pathogenesis of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and tuberculosis (TB). We studied the association of the central iron-regulatory hormone hepcidin with the severity of HIV and the association between hepcidin and other mark...

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Main Authors: Rudi Wisaksana, Quirijn de Mast, Bachti Alisjahbana, Hadi Jusuf, Primal Sudjana, Agnes R Indrati, Rachmat Sumantri, Dorine Swinkels, Reinout van Crevel, Andre van der Ven
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3823592?pdf=render

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