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Published on: December 17, 2013
Expression of a novel protein by regenerating hepatocytes and peripheral blood lymphocytes
1Department of Pathology, Finch University of Health Sciences/Chicago Medical School and Veterans Affairs Medical Center, North Chicago, Illinois 60064, USA.
Abstract:
Regeneration and tolerance factor (RTF) is a protein with immunosuppressive activity and is normally present in the thymus and placenta. RTF was measured in the livers of patients with regenerating nodules due to alcoholic cirrhosis and hepatitis C. RTF was expressed in the regenerating nodules of 26 patients with alcoholic cirrhosis. All patients with chronic hepatitis C without cirrhosis failed to express RTF. Flow cytometry revealed upregulation of RTF on the lymphocytes from alcoholic cirrhosis and downregulation in hepatitis C disease.

