Immune Response

Hepatitis B Immune Globulin Cangene

HepaGam B® [Hepatitis B Immune Globulin (Human) Injection] contains purified antibodies specific for the hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg). * It is approved in Canada and the United States f...

Hepatitis B Immune Globulin Talecris

Hepatitis B Immune Globulin Grifols

Hepatitis B Immune Globulin Nabi

Hepatitis B Immune Globulin (Human), Nabi-HB, is a sterile solution of immunoglobulin (5 1 percent protein) containing antibodies to hepatitis B surface antigen (anti-HBs). It is prepared from plasma...

Tobacco May Lower Immune System Response In Liver Transplant Recipients

Transplant recipients who smoke or have smoked increase their risk of viral hepatitis reinfection following liver transplantation according to new research available in Liver Transplantation, a journa...

Blocking A Key Protein Boosts Body's Ability To Clear Chronic Infections Like HIV, Hepatitis C

UCLA scientists have shown that temporarily blocking a protein critical to immune response actually helps the body clear itself of chronic infection. Published in the journal Science, the finding sugg...

Smoking Tied to Risk for Hepatitis Return After Liver Transplant

FRIDAY, July 27 (HealthDay News) -- Current or previous smoking may increase the risk of hepatitis reinfection in people who have a liver transplant due to viral hepatitis, a new study suggests. This...

Current and former smokers at risk for recurrent hepatitis post-liver transplantation

Transplant recipients who smoke or have smoked increase their risk of viral hepatitis reinfection following liver transplantation according to new research available in the July issue of Liver Transpl...

Synthetic DNA immunogen encoding hepatitis B core antigen drives immune response in liver

How T Cells Craft An Appropriate Immune Response

A properly functioning immune system is a lesson in balance, providing protection against disease without attacking healthy tissue. Work led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists and pub...

Gene Fundamental To The Function Of The Immune System May Be Key To Controlling HIV And Hepatitis

A newly discovered gene that is essential for embryo survival could also hold the key to treating and potentially controlling chronic infections such as HIV, hepatitis and tuberculosis. The gene, call...

New approaches to treat persistent viral infections like HIV and hepatitis C

UCLA scientists have shown that temporarily blocking a protein critical to immune response actually helps the body clear itself of chronic infection. Published in the April 12 edition of Science, the...

Do the initial serum level changes of sCD26 have ability to predict successful treatment with IFN-α among naïve chronic hepatitis B patients?

Hepatitis B is a major health problem with serious consequences. In hepatitis B treatment host cellular immune responses have a determinant role and T helper cells are the main active members of immun...

Altered or impaired immune response upon vaccination in WNIN/Ob rats.

The present study was aimed to study the immune response in three months old male and female naïve obese animals and upon hepatitis B vaccination in three months old female WNIN/Ob obese mutant rats,...

Hepatitis Associated Aplastic Anemia: A review.

ABSTRACT: Hepatitis-associated aplastic anemia (HAAA) is an uncommon but distinct variant of aplastic anemia in which pancytopenia appears two to three months after an acute attack of hepatitis. HAAA...

Interferon-lambda in the Immune Response to Hepatitis B Virus and Hepatitis C Virus.

Approximately 500 million people worldwide are chronically infected with the hepatitis B virus (HBV) or hepatitis C virus (HCV), and are therefore at an increased risk for developing fatal liver disea...

Toll-like receptors and cytokines/cytokine receptors polymorphisms associate with non-response to hepatitis B vaccine.

It is well documented that 5-10% hepatitis B adult vaccinees are non- and hypo-responders and probably are not adequately protected against hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. The sequence variations o...