The interferon-α gene family of Marmota himalayana, a Chinese marmot species with susceptibility to woodchuck hepatitis virus infection

Developmental and Comparative Immunology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 445-457

  Lu, Yinping ^a   Wang, Baoju ^a   Huang, Hongping ^a   Tian, Yongjun ^a   Bao, Junjie ^a   Dong, Jihua ^a   Roggendorf, Michael ^b   Lu, Mengji ^a,b   Yang, Dongliang ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Animal model; Hepatitis B virus; IFN ; Marmota himalayana; Viral hepatitis; Woodchuck hepatitis virus

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; RECOMBINANT ALPHA INTERFERON;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HEPATITIS; HEPATITIS VIRUS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTION; PSEUDOGENE; RAT; SCIURIDAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALIA; HEPATITIS A VIRUS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; MARMOTA; MARMOTA HIMALAYANA; MARMOTA MONAX; WOODCHUCK HEPATITIS VIRUS;

EID: 37349106138     PISSN: 0145305X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dci.2007.08.003     Document Type: Article

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