The Promise of Advanced Imaging Techniques for the Detection of Hepatitis C Virus Antigens in the Infected Liver

Gastroenterology

Volumn 137, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1214-1218

  Wölk, Benno ^a   Moradpour, Darius ^b  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; HEPATITIS C ANTIGEN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; NON RECEPTOR PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE 2; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 3; QUANTUM DOT; VIRUS ANTIGEN; VIRUS RNA; CORE PROTEIN; NS3 PROTEIN, HEPATITIS C VIRUS; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ANTIGEN DETECTION; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; EDITORIAL; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIVER; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CELL; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER SURGERY; MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TWO PHOTON EXCITATION MICROSCOPY; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS INFECTION; BIOPSY; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIROLOGY; VIRUS LOAD;

BIOPSY; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C ANTIGENS; HUMANS; LIVER; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE, MULTIPHOTON; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; QUANTUM DOTS; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; RNA, VIRAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIRAL CORE PROTEINS; VIRAL LOAD; VIRAL NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEINS;

EID: 70349432262     PISSN: 00165085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2009.08.027     Document Type: Editorial

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