Hepatitis B e Antigen Seroconversion Is Related with the Function of Dendritic Cells in Chronic Hepatitis B Virus Infection

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Morphological characteristics of dendritic cells in light microscope that were cultured for 7 days from two kinds of chronic HBV carriers and healthy controls ×200. (a) Dendritic cells cultured from patients in immune tolerance; (b) dendritic cells cultured from patients in inactive HBsAg carrier state; (c) dendritic cells cultured from normal controls.

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