The hepatitis B virus (HBV) precore protein inhibits HBV replication in transgenic mice?

Journal of Virology

Volumn 70, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 7056-7061

  Guidotti, Luca G ^a,b   Matzke, Brent ^a   Pasquinelli, Claudio ^a   Shoenberger, Jan M ^a   Rogler, Charles E ^c   Chisari, Francis V ^a  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVELOPE GENE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; LIFE CYCLE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS NUCLEOCAPSID; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 0029794533     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.70.10.7056-7061.1996     Document Type: Article

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