Major histocompatibility complex class-I
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Yoichi Hiasa; Hidemi Takahashi; Masumi Shimizu; Hideko Nuriya; Kyoko Tsukiyama-K
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Article
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2004
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is often persistent, but its mechanism and pathogenesis remain unclear. One mechanism through which HCV escapes systemic immunosurveillance might be via impaired dendritic cells (DCs), which are the most potent type of antigenβpresenting cells. We exami