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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Hepatology. 2012 Dec;56(6):2094–2105. doi: 10.1002/hep.25951

Figure 5. HCV-specific TGFβ correlates with histological liver disease severity.

Figure 5

TGFβ secreted by PBMC in response to HCV-Core peptides significantly inversely correlated with liver inflammation grade, fibrosis stage and histological activity index (HAI = stage + grade), but not with serum ALT. TGFβ results are expressed as total responses to HCV-Core peptides (summed for 3 pools) (Spearman rank test).