Journal of Hepatology
Volume 48, Issue 1 , Pages 51-60 , January 2008

Hepatitis C virus core protein impairs in vitro priming of specific T cell responses by dendritic cells and hepatocytes

  • Mona Zimmermann

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Ulm, Robert-Koch-Strasse 8, 89081 Ulm, Germany
    • ,
  • Christin Flechsig

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Ulm, Robert-Koch-Strasse 8, 89081 Ulm, Germany
    • ,
  • Nicola La Monica

      Affiliations

    • IRBM, Pomezia, Italy
    • ,
  • Marco Tripodi

      Affiliations

    • Dipartimento di Biotecnologie Cellulari ed Ematologia, Istituto Pasteur-Cenci Bolognetti, Università La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
    • National Institute for Infections Diseases, L. Spallanzani, IRCCS, Rome, Italy
    • ,
  • Guido Adler

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Ulm, Robert-Koch-Strasse 8, 89081 Ulm, Germany
    • ,
  • Nektarios Dikopoulos

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Ulm, Robert-Koch-Strasse 8, 89081 Ulm, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +49 731 500 44715; fax: +49 731 500 40331.

Received 1 March 2007 ,Revised 23 August 2007 ,Accepted 28 August 2007.

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☆ The authors declare that they do not have anything to disclose regarding conflict of interest with respect to this manuscript.

PII: S0168-8278(07)00530-2

doi: 10.1016/j.jhep.2007.08.008

Journal of Hepatology
Volume 48, Issue 1 , Pages 51-60 , January 2008

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