Novel DNA sequence isolated from blood donors with high transaminase levels

Hepatology Research

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 971-981

  Satoh, Koei ^a   Iwata Takakura, Akiko ^a   Osada, Naoki ^b   Yoshikawa, Akira ^c   Hoshi, Yuji ^a   Miyakawa, Keiko ^a   Gotanda, Yuko ^a   Satake, Masahiro ^a   Tadokoro, Kenji ^a   Mizoguchi, Hideaki ^c  

^a Japanese Red Cross Society   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^c SUWA RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alanine aminotransferase; Hepatitis virus; Non A E hepatitis; RNA helicase

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; DNA; GENOMIC DNA; HEPATITIS E ANTIBODY; RNA HELICASE; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD SAMPLING; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA VIRUS; FILTRATION; GENE REPLICATION; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HEPATITIS VIRUS; HEPATITIS VIRUS NON A NON E; LEUKOCYTE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RESTRICTION; RNA VIRUS; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION;

EID: 80053277703     PISSN: 13866346     EISSN: 1872034X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1872-034X.2011.00848.x     Document Type: Article

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