The impact of hepatitis B surface antigen on natural killer cells in patients with chronic hepatitis B virus infection.
Yanqin DuOlympia E AnastasiouBenedikt StrunzJanina ScheutenBirgit BremerAnke R M KraftKarolina KleinsimglinhausDaniel TodtRuth BroeringMatthias Hardtke-WolenskiJun WuDongliang YangUlf DittmerMengji LuMarkus CornbergNiklas K BjörkströmTanvi KheraHeiner WedemeyerPublished in: Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver (2021)
The differential regulation of NK cell phenotype and function suggests that activation of NK cells in patients with low serum HBsAg levels may contribute to HBV clearance.