Innate immune responses to hepatitis C virus

Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 369, Issue , 2013, Pages 219-242

  Schoggins, John W ^a   Rice, Charles M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 28B;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; IL28B GENE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INNATE IMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA VIRUS INFECTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS REPLICATION;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

EID: 84876522073     PISSN: 0070217X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-27340-7_9     Document Type: Article

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