Gastroenterology
Volume 138, Issue 2 , Pages 671-681.e2, February 2010

Silymarin Inhibits In Vitro T-Cell Proliferation and Cytokine Production in Hepatitis C Virus Infection

  • Chihiro Morishima

      Affiliations

    • Division of Virology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests Address requests for reprints to: Chihiro Morishima, MD, Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington, Box 359743, Seattle, Washington 98104. fax: (206) 897-4312
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  • Margaret C. Shuhart

      Affiliations

    • Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington
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  • Chia C. Wang

      Affiliations

    • Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington
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  • Denise M. Paschal

      Affiliations

    • Division of Virology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington
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  • Minjun C. Apodaca

      Affiliations

    • Division of Virology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington
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  • Yanze Liu

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, McLean General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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  • Derek D. Sloan

      Affiliations

    • Division of Virology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington
    • Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
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  • Tyler N. Graf

      Affiliations

    • Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of North Carolina Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina
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  • Nicholas H. Oberlies

      Affiliations

    • Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of North Carolina Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina
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  • David Y.–W. Lee

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, McLean General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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  • Keith R. Jerome

      Affiliations

    • Division of Virology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington
    • Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
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  • Stephen J. Polyak

      Affiliations

    • Division of Virology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington
    • Department of Global Health, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington

Received 28 October 2008; accepted 15 September 2009. published online 25 September 2009.

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 Conflicts of interest The authors disclose no conflicts.

 Funding Supported by grant R21 AT002895 from the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicines/National Institutes of Health (to S.J.P.) and by grant R01 CA104286 from the National Cancer Institute/NIH for the isolation of pure compounds from milk thistle (to T.N.G./N.H.O.); however, study sponsors had no role in the collection, analysis, or interpretation of the data in this manuscript.

PII: S0016-5085(09)01662-X

doi:10.1053/j.gastro.2009.09.021

Gastroenterology
Volume 138, Issue 2 , Pages 671-681.e2, February 2010

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