Liver injury associated with hepatitis C infection: Is it the virus or is it the host?

✍ Scribed by D L Thiele

• Book ID: 102244051
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 148 KB
• Volume: 26
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0270-9139
• DOI: 10.1002/hep.510260134

✦ Synopsis

LIVER INJURY ASSOCIATED WITH HEPATITIS C

of acute hepatocellular injury and inversely with levels of HBV viremia. Moreover, low serum HBV DNA and elevated

INFECTION: IS IT THE VIRUS OR IS IT THE HOST?

serum alanine transaminase levels, two apparent clinical Nelson DR, Marousis CG, Davis GL, Rice CM, Wong J, manifestations of an active host immune response to HBV, Houghton M, Lau JYN. The role of hepatitis C virus-specific are the best clinical predictors of response to interferon thercytotoxic T lymphocytes in chronic hepatitis C. Reprinted apy. 2,3 with permission.