Viral infections: Reinvigorating exhausted T cells in hepatitis B infection

Nature Reviews Immunology 17, 218 (2017). doi:10.1038/nri.2017.35 Author: Megan Cully During chronic infection with hepatitis B virus (HBV), T cells become exhausted, and their antiviral response is weakened. An article in Nature Medicine now shows that reducing mitochondrial dysfunction using mitochondrion-targeted antioxidants in CD8+ T cells from patients with chronic HBV infection
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