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SUBMITTER: Li Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5136554 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Li Young Y Wu Yang Y Zheng Xiaohu X Cong Jingjing J Liu Yanyan Y Li Jiabin J Sun Rui R Tian Zhigang G ZG Wei Haiming M HM
Frontiers in immunology 20161205
Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection remains a serious disease, mainly due to its severe pathological consequences, which are difficult to cure using current therapies. When the immune system responds to hepatocytes experiencing rapid HBV replication, effector cells (such as HBV-specific CD8+ T cells, NK cells, NKT cells, and other subtypes of immune cells) infiltrate the liver and cause hepatitis. However, the precise recruitment of these cells remains unclear. In the present study, we fou ...[more]