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| Autor: | Carneiro, Valdirene Leão, Lemaire, Denise Carneiro, Bendicho, Maria Teresita Del Niño Jesus Fernandez, Souza, Sabrina L., Cavalcante, Lourianne Nascimento, Angelo, Ana Luiza Dias, Freire, Songeli Menezes, Mendes, Carlos Maurício Cardeal, Santana, Nelma Pereira de, Lyra, Luiz Guilherme Costa |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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| Zdroj: | Repositório Institucional da UFBA Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA) instacron:UFBA |
| ISSN: | 1478-3231 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1478-3231.2010.02212.x |
| Popis: | Trabalho completo: acesso restrito, p.567–573 Submitted by Bruna Lessa (lessbruna@gmail.com) on 2012-05-11T19:51:28Z No. of bitstreams: 1 (13)j.1478-3231.2010.02212.x.pdf: 186878 bytes, checksum: 9a6f89d5e06726a754b4503b7fdeacad (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2012-05-11T19:51:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 (13)j.1478-3231.2010.02212.x.pdf: 186878 bytes, checksum: 9a6f89d5e06726a754b4503b7fdeacad (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-04 Background/Aims: Killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptors (KIR) are involved in the activation/inhibition of NK cells through an interaction with HLA class I molecules on target cells. Our study aimed to evaluate the association between KIR gene polymorphisms and the response of patients with CHC to antiviral therapy. Methods: We compared the frequency of KIR genes, as well as that of compound KIR/HLA-C genotypes, between groups of patients with CHC who presented a sustained virological response (n = 66) and who were non-responders to a combination of pegylated or standard interferon and ribavirin (n = 101). KIR and HLA-C genotyping were performed using commercial kits. Results: We detected a greater frequency of the KIR2DL5 gene among non-responders to antiviral therapy compared with sustained virological responders (68.3 vs. 40.9%) (Po0.001). We used multiple logistic regression analysis to determine the association between therapy response and the presence of KIR2DL5, after a control for potentially confounding variables (genotype, alcohol, fibrosis, gender, age, ethnic background and route of HCV infection). The results confirmed the strong association between the presence of KIR2DL5 and the non-response to antiviral treatment (P = 0.001). Conclusions: Host genetic factors may be associated with a non-response to antiviral therapy. KIR2DL5 is a candidate gene involved in immunomodulation associated with non-response to antiviral therapy. |
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