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Hepatitis C virus may infect extrahepatic tissues in patients with hepatitis C.

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:AIM:To explore the status of extrahepatic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and replication in hepatitis C patients,and its potential implication in HCV infection and pathogenicity.METHODS:By reverse-transcriptase poly-merase chain reaction (RT-PCR),in situ hybridization (ISH) and immunohis-tochemistry, HCV RNA, HCV replicative intermediate (minus-strand of HCV RNA), and HCV antigens were detected in 38 autopsy extrahepatic tissue specimens (including 9 kidneys, 9 hearts, 9 pancreas, 5 intestines, 2 adrenal glands, 2 spleens, 1 lymph node, and 1 gallbladder) from 9 hepatitis C patients, respectively; and the status of HCV replication in extrahepatic tissues was studied.RESULTS:By RT-PCR, all 9 patients were positive for HCV RNA in kidney, heart, pancreas, and intestine, but only 6(66.7%) patients were positive for HCV replicative intermediate. HCV RNA and HCV antigens were detected in kidney, heart, pancreas, intestine, adrenal gland, lymph node, and gallbladder in 5(55.6%) and 6(66.7%) patients by ISH and immuno-histochemistry, respectively. HCV RNA and HCV antigens were not detected in these extrahepatic organs in 3(33.3%) patients, although their livers were positive for HCV.HCV replicative intermediate detected by RT-PCR was consistent with HCV RNA and HCV antigens detected by ISH and immunohistochemistry (Kappa =0.42-0.75). HCV RNA and HCV antigens were detected in myocardial cells, epithelial cells of intestinal gladular, interstitial cells of kidney, epithelial cells of tubules and glomerulus, pancreas acinar cells and epithelial cells of pancreatic duct, epithelial cells of mucous membrane sinus of gallbladder, cortex and medulla cells in adrenal gland,and mononuclear cells in lymph node. HCV RNA was also detected in bile duct epithelial cells, sinusoidal cells, and mononuclear cells in liver tissues by ISH.CONCLUSION:HCV can infect extrahepatic tissues, and many various tissue cells may support HCV replication; extrahepatic HCV infection and replication may be of concomitant state in most of patients with hepatitis C. The infected extrahepatic tissues might act as a reservoir for HCV, and play a role in both HCV persistence and reactivation of infection. HCV as an etiologic agent replicating and expressing viral proteins in extrahepatic tissues itself contributes to extrahepatic syndrome associated-HCV infection in a few patients with chronic HCV infection.

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World J Gastroenterol

journal_title

World journal of gastroenterology

authors

Yan FM,Chen AS,Hao F,Zhao XP,Gu CH,Zhao LB,Yang DL,Hao LJ

doi

10.3748/wjg.v6.i6.805

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pub_date

2000-12-01 00:00:00

pages

805-811

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eissn

1007-9327

issn

2219-2840

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Hepatitis C virus may infect extrahepatic tissues in patients with hepatitis C.