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Cytoplasmic expression of hepatitis B core antigen in chronic hepatitis B virus infection: role of precore stop mutants.
Liver - 1 Jun 1999
Park Y N, Han K H, Kim K S, Chung J P, Kim S, Park C
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AIMS/BACKGROUND: The cytoplasmic expression of HBcAg is a possible target of immune hepatocytolysis and it is important for the pathogenesis of hepatic injury in chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. Cytoplasmic HBcAg expression has been suggested to be related to the precore sequence of HBV, HBV DNA level or cell cycle of hepatocytes and the aim of this study was to understand its mechanism....
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