INTERFERON


Meaning of INTERFERON in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

alfa

Tumour necrosis factor, interferon alfa , and interleukin 2 have already been expressed and secreted in high concentrations within certain tumours.

We report on patients with chronic viral hepatitis who died of hepatic decompensation during or shortly after interferon alfa treatment.

These centres had treated 2490 patients with chronic viral hepatitis with interferon alfa .

No apparent reason for the liver failure other than interferon alfa treatment could be detected in any of the patients.

A relation between liver failure and interferon alfa seems probable in the patients who did not have hepatic decompensation before treatment.

Most of the patients developed ascites, jaundice, and encephalopathy that progressed even after interferon alfa was stopped.

There are several possible explanations for a link between interferon alfa and fatal hepatic injury.

Other possible explanations are that interferon alfa is directly toxic to hepatocytes and that it induces autoimmune chronic active hepatitis.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

All but one patient exhibited the response while on interferon therapy.

For the time being however, interferon remains very much an experimental drug whose full clinical value has yet to be determined.

Now, it seems, interferon is less than perfect.

Trials of interferon in viral disease have certainly met with some success.

Tumour necrosis factor, interferon alfa, and interleukin 2 have already been expressed and secreted in high concentrations within certain tumours.

Usually interferon is given in a single continuous course.

We report on patients with chronic viral hepatitis who died of hepatic decompensation during or shortly after interferon alfa treatment.

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