Elevated levels of serum soluble E-selectin in patients with chronic hepatitis B: Correlation with T lymphocyte subsets, NK cells and liver inflammation

The sE-selectin levels in patients with chronic hepatitis B increase significantly and correlate to liver inflammation, suggesting that sE-selectin can be considered as an additional useful marker of CHB inflammatory activity, and E-selectin may play part of role in pathogenesis of chronic hepatitis B.