Open AccessNatural course of chronic hepatitis B is characterized by changing patterns of programmed death type-1 of CD8-positive T cells
Author(s) -
Xuesong Liang,
Ying Zhou,
Chen-Zhong Li,
Mo-Bin Wan
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
world journal of gastroenterology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.427
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 2219-2840
pISSN - 1007-9327
DOI - 10.3748/wjg.v16.i5.618
Subject(s) - immune system , hepatitis b virus , cd8 , immunology , flow cytometry , pd l1 , biology , virus , chronic infection , t cell , virology , medicine , immunotherapy
To investigate if and how programmed death type-1 (PD-1) expression affects the natural course of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection.