Objective: The kinetics of recovery for innate immune effectors following antiretroviral
therapy are unknown. Design and methods: Multiple sequential cryopreserved samples …

Background Natural killer (NK) cells number, phenotypes and function have been evaluated
in many studies in adults with hepatitis C as compared with healthy controls or dynamically …

Viruses must continually adapt against dynamic innate and adaptive responses of the host
immune system to establish chronic infection. Only a small minority (~ 20%) of those …

Natural killer (NK) cells are considered to play a critical role in liver disease. However, the
available numbers of intrahepatic lymphocytes (IHL) derived from liver biopsies (LB) for ex …

Persistent infections with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and hepatitis C virus
(HCV) are a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. As sentinels of our immune …

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 …

Chronic infection with hepatitis C virus (HCV) causes a quantitative and functional alteration
in innate and adaptative immunity. In the present work, we determined by flow-cytometry the …

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection induces the long-term risk of liver cirrhosis or
hepatocellular carcinoma and in adults represents the most common cause of liver …

Abstract Background/Aims: Experimental liver injury models have indicated that natural killer
(NK) cells are critical regulators of inflammation and fibrosis. However, data on NK cells and …

Natural killer (NK) cells have been reported to be dysfunctional in chronic hepatitis B (CHB)
infection. However, the functional recovery of NK cells under antiviral therapeutic agents in …