TY - BOOK AU - Haitham Ahmed Ali Gabr AU - Ahmed Fouad Soliman , AU - Moataz Serry Seyam , AU - Zakaria Abdellateef Salama , TI - Fluvastatin as an adjuvant therapy with pegylated interferon and ribavirin in the treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus / PY - 2013/// CY - Cairo : PB - Haitham Ahmed Ali Gabr , KW - Fluvastatin KW - Statins and HCV KW - Treatment of HCV N1 - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Tropical Medicine; Issued also as CD N2 - It could be argued that statins, besides a weak direct antiviral effect, may enhance HCV infectivity of hepatocytes through the decrease in circulating LDL levels and the up-regulation of LDL receptors. This effect of statins might counterbalance the antiviral activity described in the replicon models UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -