Unraveling the viral puzzle of why humans are susceptible to hepatitis B virus, but monkeys are not
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a leading cause of chronic liver diseases that spreads among individuals through blood ...
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Scientists implicate a novel cellular protein in hepatitis A infection
They also deleted the gene for PDAP1 in a mouse model of hepatitis A. When exposed to the virus, the liver cells lacking ...
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Cellular Protein Used as a Pawn by Hepatitis A Virus To Infect Liver Cells
New research has illustrated how hepatitis A virus uses cellular proteins, like PDAP1, to infect liver cells, replicate and ...
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Barcelona's wild boar population linked to hepatitis E infections in humans
Over the last few decades, wild boar populations have increased in the urban areas of Barcelona and in other parts of Catalonia.
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GigaGen commences Phase I clinical trial of GIGA-2339 for hepatitis B treatment
The potency of GIGA-2339 is claimed to be more than 2,000 times greater than that of plasma-derived HBV treatments.
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A panel of optimized primers and positive-control DNAs for PCR detection of common biological contaminants in mouse cell lines and tissue samples
In another instance, the use of cell culture medium contaminated with mouse hepatitis virus (MHV) resulted in infection of embryos 2. In one study, 25% of transplantable tumors, cell lines ...