title: [The measurement and significance of serum chemokine RANTES in patients with chronic hepatitis B].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the relationship of the serum chemokine RANTES level in patients with chronic hepatitis B among different clinical severity and to explore its possible reasons.
  
  
  METHODS
  144 patients with chronic hepatitis B were divided into mild-moderate (46), serious (51) or severe group (47) according to the different clinical severity and 18 normal cases were taken as normal control. The serum level of chemokine RANTES was detected with an ABC-ELISA assay. Statistical analysis was performed on the software of SPSS 13.0.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The serum chemokine RANTES levels in patients with chronic hepatitis B (2227.06 +/- 790.80, 5878.49 +/- 3334.58, 3482.77 +/- 2315.62 ng/L in mild-moderate, serious and severe group respectively) were significantly higher than that in the normal control (329.46 +/- 152.00 ng/L). The differences between each two hepatitis groups were also statistically significant (P < 0.05) and serum chemokine RANTES level in serious group was highest among them.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Serum chemokine RANTES level in patients with chronic hepatitis B elevates significantly and it might play an important role in the pathogenesis of chronic hepatitis B.
authors.affiliation: Department of Infectious Diseases, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510630, China.
authors.forename: Ka
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Qi-Huan
authors.initials: QH
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Lu-Biao
authors.initials: LB
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Xin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Shu
authors.forename: Hong
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Cao
authors.forename: Gang
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D018946:Chemokine CCL5 / Q000097:blood*; D005260:Female; D019694:Hepatitis B, Chronic / Q000097:blood / Q000276:immunology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D055815:Young Adult
chemical_list: D018946:Chemokine CCL5