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Altered DNA mutation spectrum in aflatoxin b1-treated transgenic mice that express the hepatitis B virus x protein.
Journal of virology - 1 Nov 2002
Madden Charles R, Finegold Milton J, Slagle Betty L
Abstract excerpt
Humans chronically infected with hepatitis B virus (HBV) are at further risk of liver cancer upon exposure to dietary aflatoxin B1 (AFB1), a carcinogenic product of the mold Aspergillus flavus. For the present study, we utilized double-transgenic mice (ATX mice) that express the HBV X protein (HBx) and possess a bacteriophage lambda transgene to evaluate the in vivo effect of HBx expression on AFB1-induced DNA...
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