Does iron inhibit replication of infectious hepatitis C virus in permissive Huh7.5.1 cells?
Our data establish a critical role of hepatic iron concentration on the progression of HCV infection, and are consistent with iron-mediated inactivation of NS5B.
In this small cohort of cancer patients, deoxyribonucleic acid sequence variants of the MC1R gene, especially the R160W variant, have been associated with unexpectedly severe acute reactions to RT. This result needs to be verified in a larger cohort of patients.