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SUBMITTER: Li TY
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6658392 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Li Tian-Yang TY Yang Yang Y Zhou Guo G Tu Zheng-Kun ZK
World journal of gastroenterology 20190701 27
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is one the leading risk factors for chronic hepatitis, liver fibrosis, cirrhosis and hepatocellular cancer (HCC), which are a major global health problem. A large number of clinical studies have shown that chronic HBV persistent infection causes the dysfunction of innate and adaptive immune response involving monocytes/macrophages, dendritic cells, natural killer (NK) cells, T cells. Among these immune cells, cell subsets with suppressive features have been reco ...[more]