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ReviewAntiviral research2015

T cell responses in hepatitis C virus infection: historical overview and goals for future research.

Lauren Holz, Barbara Rehermann

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Review in Antiviral research, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers.

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36citing papers in PubMed
2.0field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

36 citing papers in PubMed, 59 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Peripheral PD-1Frontiers in immunology · 2019
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  5. Bispecific antibodies against the hepatitis C virus E1E2 envelope glycoprotein.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  7. Biomarkers in Detection of Hepatitis C Virus Infection.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Lauren HolzImmunology Section, Liver Diseases Branch, NIDDK, National Institutes of Health, DHHS, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
Barbara RehermannImmunology Section, Liver Diseases Branch, NIDDK, National Institutes of Health, DHHS, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. Electronic address: Rehermann@nih.gov.
United States Department of Health and Human Services · US

Funding

Regulation of hepatic and systemic immune responsesZIADK054508 · NIDDK · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES · PI REHERMANN, BARBARA · 2009 to 2025
$22.1M
Immunology of Acute and Chronic Viral Hepatitis in HumansZIADK054509 · NIDDK · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES · PI REHERMANN, BARBARA · 2009 to 2025
$15.1M
Intramural NIH HHS ZIA DK054508Intramural NIH HHS ZIA DK054509
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hepatitis C virus (HCV)-specific T cells are key factors in the outcome of acute HCV infection and in protective immunity. This review recapitulates the steps that immunologists have taken in the past 25years to dissect the role of T cell responses in HCV infection. It describes technical as well as disease-specific challenges that were caused by the inapparent onset of acute HCV infection, the difficulty to identify subjects who spontaneously clear HCV infection, the low frequency of HCV-specific T cells in the blood of chronically infected patients, and the lack of small animal models with intact immune systems to study virus-host interaction. The review provides a historical perspective on techniques and key findings, and identifies areas for future research.

Indexed as

AnimalsCD4-Positive T-LymphocytesCD8-Positive T-LymphocytesEpitopes, T-LymphocyteHepacivirusHepatitis CHepatitis C, ChronicHumansMutationViral Hepatitis VaccinesEpitopes, T-LymphocyteViral Hepatitis VaccinesHepatitis C virusHistoryImmunological techniquesInfectionT cell

Identifiers

PMID25433310
PMCPMC4480227
OpenAlexW2075973564

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