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ArticleIndian journal of clinical biochemistry : IJCB2012

Does HCV Patients Who Have BCL2 43Ala Genotype and Normal GH1 Levels Can Achieve Response to IFN Based Therapy?

Emad F Eskander, Ahmed A Abd-Rabou, Mervat S Mohamed, Shaymaa M M Yahya, Olfat G Shaker

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Article in Indian journal of clinical biochemistry : IJCB, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Emad F EskanderHormones Department, Medical Research Division, National Research Centre, Cairo, 12622 Egypt.
Ahmed A Abd-Rabou
Mervat S Mohamed
Shaymaa M M Yahya
Olfat G Shaker
National Research Centre · EGCairo University · EG

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The main objective of the current study is to examine the role of the statistical relation between BCL2 gene (Ala43Thr) single nucleotide polymorphism and growth hormone (GH1) levels in Egyptian HCV genotype-4 patients before and after treatment with pegylated interferon plus ribavirin. Eighty patients with HCV genotype-4 and 40 healthy volunteers as controls were enrolled in the prospective study. Gene polymorphism of BCL2 (Ala43Thr) using PCR-RFLP technique and GH1 concentrations using ELISA procedure were measured for all patients and controls. The present study resulted that Responder HCV genotype-4 Patients, with BCL2 43Ala genotype, have high significant increase in pre-treatment GH1 levels (>1 ng/ml); which represent normal levels, as compared to non-responders pre-treatment GH1 levels (<1 ng/ml); which represent low concentrations. We concluded that HCV genotype-4 patients who have normal GH1 concentrations and BCL-2 43Ala genotype can successfully achieve response to interferon based therapy.

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BCL2GH1HCVPEG-IFN-α/RBVSNP

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PMID24082458
PMCPMC3477467
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