Antiviral Treatment Alters the Frequency of Activating and Inhibitory Receptor-Expressing Natural Killer Cells in Chronic Hepatitis B Virus Infected Patients

• Main Authors: Juan Lv (Author), Qinglong Jin (Author), Haibo Sun (Author), Xiumei Chi (Author), Xiaoli Hu (Author), Hongqing Yan (Author), Yu Pan (Author), Weihua Xiao (Author), Zhigang Tian (Author), Jinlin Hou (Author), Damo Xu (Author), Zhengkun Tu (Author), Junqi Niu (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Hindawi Limited, 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Natural killer (NK) cells play a critical role in innate antiviral immunity, but little is known about the impact of antiviral therapy on the frequency of NK cell subsets. To this aim, we performed this longitudinal study to examine the dynamic changes of the frequency of different subsets of NK cel...