Antiviral Treatment Alters the Frequency of Activating and Inhibitory Receptor-Expressing Natural Killer Cells in Chronic Hepatitis B Virus Infected Patients
Table 1
Characteristics of study population.
Healthy controls ()
ADV-group (baseline, )
TDF-group (baseline, )
Age, years (mean ± SEM)
35.9 ± 10.1
33.5 ± 5.9
35.2 ± 6.44
Sex
Female/male (%)
2/10 (17/83)
2/10 (17/83)
5/7 (42/58)
ALT, IU/mL (median (IQ range))
n.a
125.5 (65–383)
123.5 (95–358)
HBV-DNA mean IU/mL ± SEM
n.a
7.7 ± 0.9
7.5 ± 1.0
HBeAg
Positive/negative
n.a
8/4
7/5
HBV genotype
Genotype B/C
2/10
0/12
Abbreviations: SEM: standard error of mean, IQ: interquartile, n.a.: not applicable.
