Fig. 5.

miR-155 expression of human peripheral blood monocytes was positively correlation with the content of ALT, AST, and HBeAg in serum of patients with AHB. The expression of miR-155 was determined with q-PCR in peripheral blood monocytes of health controls and patients with AHB (a). The correlation between miR-155 expression and the content of ALT (b), AST (c), HBeAg (d), HBcAg (e), or HBV-DNA (f) were analyzed. Peripheral blood monocytes of health controls were collected and cultured with the serum of health controls or patients with AHB (g H-M peripheral blood monocytes of health controls, H-S the serum of health controls, AHB-S the serum of patients with AHB). Data are representative of three independent experiments (mean ± SD of triplicates in a, g)