IL-18 Is Elevated in Fulminant Viral Hepatitis (IMAGE)

Rockefeller University Press

IL-18 Is Elevated in Fulminant Viral Hepatitis

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IL-18 levels (indicated by brown staining) are low in the liver of a healthy individual (left) but are drastically elevated in the liver of a young girl with fulminant viral hepatitis resulting from a mutation in the IL18BP gene (right).

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Belkaya et al., 2019

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