Rosuvastatin Intervention Decreased the Frequencies of the TIM-3+ Population of NK Cells and NKT Cells among Patients with Chronic Hepatitis B.

Alireza Norouzi Shohreh TazikiAli NajafipasandiSaeed Mohammadi Gholamreza Roshandel

Published in: Iranian journal of immunology : IJI (2022)

The increased population of NK and NKT cells and the effective reduction of TIM-3+ cells among patients with CHB delineated that rosuvastatin could be proposed as an appropriate modulator of innate immune response (regarding NK and NKT cells) in favor of enhancing their antiviral activities.

Keyphrases

induced apoptosis
immune response
cell cycle arrest
nk cells
oxidative stress
cell death
toll like receptor
liver fibrosis