Detection of clonally expanded hepatocytes in chimpanzees with chronic hepatitis B virus infection

Journal of Virology

Volumn 83, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 8396-8408

  Mason, William S ^a   Low, Huey Chi ^b,c   Xu, Chunxiao ^a   Aldrich, Carol E ^a   Scougall, Catherine A ^b,c   Grosse, Arend ^b,c   Clouston, Andrew ^d   Chavez, Deborah ^e   Litwin, Samuel ^a   Peri, Suraj ^a   Jilbert, Allison R ^b,c   Lanford, Robert E ^e  

^a FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL AND VETERINARY SCIENCE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^e SOUTHWEST NATIONAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B VACCINE; INTERLEUKIN 12; LAMIVUDINE; PEGINTERFERON ALPHA; VIRUS DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CLONE; CELL COUNT; CELL EXPANSION; CELL JUNCTION; CELL SIZE; CHIMPANZEE; CHROMOSOME; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA INTEGRATION; FEMALE; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS DELTA VIRUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INVERSE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CELL; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; VIRUS TITRATION; ANIMAL; GENETICS; HUMAN; LIVER; METHODOLOGY; PAN TROGLODYTES; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROVIRUS; VIROLOGY; VIRUS DNA CELL DNA INTERACTION;

HEPADNAVIRIDAE; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; MARMOTA MONAX; PAN; WOODCHUCK HEPATITIS VIRUS;

ANIMALS; DNA, VIRAL; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS B, CHRONIC; HEPATOCYTES; HUMANS; LIVER; PAN TROGLODYTES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROVIRUSES; VIRUS INTEGRATION;

EID: 69249221499     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00700-09     Document Type: Article

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