Enhanced intracellular retention of a hepatitis B virus strain associated with fulminant hepatitis

Virology

Volumn 395, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 202-209

  Inoue, Jun ^a   Ueno, Yoshiyuki ^a   Nagasaki, Futoshi ^a   Wakui, Yuta ^a   Kondo, Yasuteru ^a   Fukushima, Koji ^a   Niitsuma, Hirofumi ^a   Shimosegawa, Tooru ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

A1762T G1764A; Core promoter; G1862T; G1896A; HBcAg; HBV; Mutation; Precore; Replicative intermediates

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B CORE ANTIGEN; HEPATITIS B(E) ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL STRAIN HEPG2; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS MUTATION; VIRUS PARTICLE; VIRUS PATHOGENESIS; VIRUS STRAIN;

CELLS, CULTURED; GENOME, VIRAL; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B CORE ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATOCYTES; HUMANS; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; MUTATION;

HEPATITIS B VIRUS;

EID: 70450222107     PISSN: 00426822     EISSN: 10960341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2009.09.028     Document Type: Article

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