Frequency and Phenotype of Human Circulating and Intrahepatic Natural Killer Cell Subsets Is Differentially Regulated according to Stage of Chronic Liver Disease

The role of natural killer (NK) and NK T cells in the loss of tolerance in murine primary biliary cirrhosis

(2012) S. Shimoda et al.   CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL IMMUNOLOGY

Natural killer p46Highexpression defines a natural killer cell subset that is potentially involved in control of hepatitis C virus replication and modulation of liver fibrosis

(2012) Benjamin Krämer et al.   HEPATOLOGY

Natural killer cells in liver disease

(2012) Zhigang Tian et al.   HEPATOLOGY

NK cells from HCV-infected patients effectively induce apoptosis of activated primary human hepatic stellate cells in a TRAIL-, FasL- and NKG2D-dependent manner

(2012) Andreas Glässner et al.   LABORATORY INVESTIGATION

The CXCR3(+)CD56Bright Phenotype Characterizes a Distinct NK Cell Subset with Anti-Fibrotic Potential That Shows Dys-Regulated Activity in Hepatitis C

(2012) Marianne Eisenhardt et al.   PLoS One

NKp46-mediated killing of human and mouse hepatic stellate cells attenuates liver fibrosis

(2011) Chamutal Gur et al.   GUT

Interaction between Toll-like receptors and natural killer cells in the destruction of bile ducts in primary biliary cirrhosis

(2011) Shinji Shimoda et al.   HEPATOLOGY

Interleukin-8 Is Activated in Patients with Chronic Liver Diseases and Associated with Hepatic Macrophage Accumulation in Human Liver Fibrosis

(2011) Henning W. Zimmermann et al.   PLoS One

Age-dependent alterations of monocyte subsets and monocyte-related chemokine pathways in healthy adults

(2010) Sebastian Seidler et al.   BMC IMMUNOLOGY

Amelioration of hepatic fibrosis by NK cell activation

(2010) N. Muhanna et al.   GUT

Increased proportion of the CD56brightNK cell subset in patients chronically infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV) receiving interferon-αand ribavirin therapy

(2010) Silvia Lee et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL VIROLOGY

Functional Contribution of Elevated Circulating and Hepatic Non-Classical CD14+CD16+ Monocytes to Inflammation and Human Liver Fibrosis

(2010) Henning W. Zimmermann et al.   PLoS One

Regulation of human NK-cell cytokine and chemokine production by target cell recognition

(2009) C. Fauriat et al.   BLOOD

Major histocompatibility complex class I-related chains A and B (MIC A/B): A novel role in nonalcoholic steatohepatitis

(2009) Alisan Kahraman et al.   HEPATOLOGY

Mononuclear cells in liver fibrosis

(2009) Fabio Marra et al.   Seminars in Immunopathology

Human natural killer cells

(2008) M. A. Caligiuri   BLOOD

Senescence of Activated Stellate Cells Limits Liver Fibrosis

(2008) Valery Krizhanovsky et al.   CELL

Expansion of CD56− NK cells in chronic HCV/HIV-1 co-infection: Reversion by antiviral treatment with pegylated IFNα and ribavirin

(2008) Veronica D. Gonzalez et al.   CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY

Mechanisms of Hepatic Fibrogenesis

(2008) Scott L. Friedman   GASTROENTEROLOGY

Altered natural killer cell subset distributions in resolved and persistent hepatitis C virus infection following single source exposure

(2008) L Golden-Mason et al.   GUT