Association of Blood NK Cell Phenotype with the Severity of Liver Fibrosis in Patients with Chronic Viral Hepatitis C with Genotype 1 or 3.
Vladislav Vladimirovich TsukanovAndrei Anatolyevich SavchenkoMikhail Aleksandrovich CherepninEduard Vilyamovich KasparovElena Petrovna TikhonovaAlexander Viktorovich VasyutinJulia Leongardovna TonkikhAnna Alexandrovna AnisimovaVasily Dmitrievich BelenyukAlexandr Gennadyevich BorisovPublished in: Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) (2024)
In patients with both genotype 1 and genotype 3 CVHC, an imbalance in the ratio between cytokine-producing and cytotoxic NK cells and an increase in the content of NK cells that express inhibitory molecules were determined in patients with severe liver fibrosis.