Interferon therapy shifts natural killer subsets among egyptian patients with chronic hepatitis C

Natural killer cells can be divided into five subpopulations based on the relative expression of CD16 and CD56 markers. The majority of natural killer cells are CD56dim, which are considered to be the main cytotoxic effectors. A minority of the natural killer cells are CD56bright, and function as an...

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Main Authors: Amal Fathy, Mohamed Mohy Eldin, Lobna Metwally, Mohamed Eida, Marwa Abdel-Rehim, Gamal Esmat
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier
Series:Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702010000400015&lng=en&tlng=en