Hepatitis C virus kinetics by administration of pegylated interferon-α in human and chimeric mice carrying human hepatocytes with variants of the<i>IL28B</i>gene - Concepedia

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Hepatitis C virus kinetics by administration of pegylated interferon-α in human and chimeric mice carrying human hepatocytes with variants of the<i>IL28B</i>gene

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Tsunamasa Watanabe, Fuminaka Sugauchi, Yasuhito Tanaka, Kentaro Matsuura, Hiroshi Yatsuhashi, Shuko Murakami, Sayuki Iijima, Etsuko Iio, Masaya Sugiyama, Takashi Shimada,

Abstract

As chimeric mice have the characteristic of immunodeficiency, the response to peg-IFN-α associated with the variation in IL28B alleles in chronic HCV patients would be composed of the intact immune system.

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