Metabolic Viral Host Properties

Hadassah Medical Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: HCV Infection

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00893308

481133- HMO-CTIL

Details and patient eligibility

About

Patients' metabolic properties may affect their immune response. This study aims to assess the effect of hosts' metabolic properties to viral infection.

Full description

Blood samples were drawn from patients with Gaucher disease and healthy individuals, with and without HCV. Blood samples were tested for protein specific T cell proliferation, IFNg and IL-10 using ELISPOT assays, serum IFNg, IL-2, IL-6, IL-10 and IL-4 levels. FACS analysis was used for evaluation of lymphocytes subsets.

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• inform consent

Exclusion criteria

• at patients request