[Recent studies have indicated that cytokines can be used as markers for disease progression in hepatitis C virus (HCV)-infected patients, therefore this study was conducted to determine the influence of pegylated IFN vs standard IFN on interleukin-2 receptor (IL-2R), IL-6R, IL-8, TNFR-I, TNFR-II, sFas, and sFas-L in Egyptian patients with chronic hepatitis C genotype 4, as no previous studies have been performed on this genotype.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE