Hepatitis B virus infection of transplanted human hepatocytes causes a biochemical and histological hepatitis in immunocompetent rats

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 978-983

  Wu, Catherine H ^a   Ouyang, Edwin C ^a   Walton, Cherie ^a   Promrat, Kittichai ^a   Forouhar, Faripour ^b   Wu, George Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CIRCULAR DNA; HEPATITIS B CORE ANTIGEN; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; VIRUS DNA; VIRUS RNA;

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DNA REPLICATION; DNA STRAND; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPLICATION; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; INOCULATION; LIVER CELL; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RAT; TRANSPLANTATION TOLERANCE; VIRUS DETECTION;

EID: 0037530210     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v9.i5.978     Document Type: Article

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