Winslow Dean L
Division of AIDS Medicine, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, California, USA.
AIDS Alert. 2006 Dec;21(12):142-3.
Hepatocytes exposed in vitro to hepatitis C virus (HCV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) envelope proteins and undergo apoptosis as a result of cell surface binding of the proteins. The studies indicate that HCV/HIV envelope proteins induce hepatocyte apoptosis by activating a novel downstream STAT1 signaling pathway.