Hepatitis C virus replicons: Potential role for drug development

Nature Reviews Drug Discovery

Volumn 1, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 911-916

  Bartenschlager, Ralf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; RIBAVIRIN; VIRUS RNA;

ACUTE DISEASE; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; DRUG DESIGN; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RESEARCH; DRUG SYNTHESIS; DRUG TARGETING; GENE MUTATION; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPLICON; RIBOSOMAL FRAMESHIFTING; VIRUS PARTICLE; VIRUS REPLICATION; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; PHARMACEUTICS; REVIEW; SYNTHESIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; DRUG DESIGN; HEPACIVIRUS; HUMANS; REPLICON; TECHNOLOGY, PHARMACEUTICAL;

EID: 0036835773     PISSN: 14741776     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrd942     Document Type: Article

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