Nursing support might help patients with chronic hepatitis C (CHC) remain in good mental and physical condition during interferon (IFN) therapy. However, the effects of nursing support have not been studied adequately in this context. This case-control study evaluated the effects of nursing support during IFN therapy. Twenty-four CHC patients who received pegylated IFN and ribavirin were enroll...

Combined pegylated interferon (PEG-IFN)+ribavirin (RBV) therapy has been used as a primary treatment for chronic hepatitis C. However, IFN-induced autoimmune disease, including type 1 diabetes mellitus, has been highlighted as one of the problems with this therapy. Here we report the case of a patient who developed type 1 diabetes mellitus during combined PEG-IFN+RBV therapy for hepatitis C but...

background: hepatitis c virus (hcv) infection is the most common transfusion transmitted disease in poly-transfused patients worldwide. in this study we aimed to evaluate the effects of pegylated interferon alfa-2a (peg-ifn a-2a) in reducing serum alt and eradicating serum hepatitis c virus (hcv) rna in hcv infected polytransfused thalassemic patients. materials and methods: a cohort of 51 hcv-...

A highly purified hybrid human interferon (IFN)-o A/D, was used to define optimum treatment regimens for Meth A fibrosar coma intradermally inoculated in syngeneic BALB/c mice. Treat ments from the sixth day post-tumor inoculation were most effective, and 10 consecutive injections of IFN completely sup pressed the tumor growth for a prolonged time without recur rence after the last injection of...

OBJECTIVE The combination of interferon (IFN) and ribavirin (RBV) is the standard therapy for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. HCV genotype 2a has proved more amenable to the therapy, but its efficacy is yet limited. This study aimed to investigate the mechanism of the poor response in a case of HCV genotype 2a infection. METHODS We analyzed dynamic change of HCV RNA from a patient, infecte...

Interferon (IFN) therapy has been the standard of care for a variety cancers decades due to pleiotropic actions IFNs against malignancies. However, little is known about role copy number alteration (CNA) IFN gene cluster, located at 9p21.3, in cancer. This large individual patient data meta-analysis using 9937 patients obtained from cBioportal indicates that CNA cluster prevalent among 24 cance...

In 10 patients with previously untreated essential thrombocythemia (ET), by using 111In-labeled platelets and megakaryocyte morphometry, the relation between platelet production rate and bone marrow megakaryocytes was evaluated before and during alpha-2b-interferon (IFN) therapy. A highly significant decrease in platelet count occurred during IFN therapy; the platelet counts, at baseline and af...

A highly purified hybrid human interferon (IFN)-alpha A/D, was used to define optimum treatment regimens for Meth A fibrosarcoma intradermally inoculated in syngeneic BALB/c mice. Treatments from the sixth day post-tumor inoculation were most effective, and 10 consecutive injections of IFN completely suppressed the tumor growth for a prolonged time without recurrence after the last injection of...

Introduction: The aim of this study is to assess the therapeutic efficacy and safety of a particular brand of IFN alpha (PDferon B®) in combination with ribavirin (RlBA) on Iranian patients with chronic hepatitis C (CHC). The addition of RIBA to the standard treatment with interferon (IFN) alpha led to an improvement in sustained virologic response (SVR) from less than 20% with IFN monother...

Abstract Objective: Interferon-γ (IFN-γ) is a key cytokine regulating the development of atherosclerosis, but little known regarding phenotype and regulation T cells producing IFN-γ in plaques. Methods: To identify characterize IFN-γ-producing we utilized IFN-γ-YFP Nur77-GFP reporter mice crossed onto an atherosclerotic background (Apoe−/−IFN-γ YFP/YFP; Apoe−/−Nur77GFP/wt), adoptive transfer tr...