Of note, we cannot exclude a contribution of ribavirin on the effect measured both on gene expression and on RNA editing activity, although we previously showed that in human neuroblastoma cell line SH-SY5Y, only IFN-α treatment but not ribavirin alone resulted in increased gene expression of ADAR1-1 (ADAR1a-p150) and RNA editing of 5-HT2cR (data not shown). The gene discussed is IFNA2; the disease is neuroblastoma.