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Front Immunol. 2014 Aug 26;5:400. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2014.00400. eCollection 2014.

Gamma Delta T-lymphocytes in Hepatitis C and Chronic Liver Disease.

Frontiers in immunology

Neil Rajoriya, Joannah Ruth Fergusson, Joanna A Leithead, Paul Klenerman

Affiliations

  1. Peter Medawar Building for Pathogen Research , Oxford , UK.
  2. Liver Unit, Queen Elizabeth Hospital , Birmingham , UK ; NIHR Biomedical Research Unit and Centre for Liver Research, University of Birmingham , Birmingham , UK.
  3. Peter Medawar Building for Pathogen Research , Oxford , UK ; NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford Radcliffe Hospital , Oxford , UK.

PMID: 25206355 PMCID: PMC4143964 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2014.00400

Abstract

Discovered 30 years ago, gamma delta (γδ) T-lymphocytes remain an intriguing and enigmatic T-cell subset. Although in humans they comprise a small fraction of the total circulating T-lymphocyte pool, they represent an important T-cell subset in tissues such as the liver, with roles bridging the innate and adaptive immune systems. The associations of γδ T-lymphocytes with chronic liver disease have been explored - however, there remain conflicting data as to whether these T-cells are pathogenic or protective. In patients with some forms of liver disease, their expansion in the periphery and especially in the liver may indeed help pathogen clearance, while in other conditions their presence may, in contrast, contribute to disease progression. γδ T-cells can also express CD161, a C-type lectin, and such cells have been found to be involved in the pathogenesis of inflammatory disease. CD161+ T-cells of diverse subsets are known to be enriched in the livers of patients with chronic hepatitis C. This article serves to provide a review of the γδ T-cell population and its role in hepatitis C and other chronic liver diseases, and also explores a potential role of the CD161+ γδ T-cells in liver diseases.

Keywords: CD161; gamma delta T-lymphocytes; γδ T-cells

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