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Hepatitis C virus infection activates the immunologic (type II) isoform of nitric oxide synthase and thereby enhances DNA damage and mutations of cellular genes.
Journal of virology - 1 Aug 2004
Machida Keigo, Cheng Kevin T-H, Sung Vicky M-H, Lee Ki Jeong, Levine Alexandra M, Lai Michael M C
Abstract excerpt
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection causes hepatitis, hepatocellular carcinoma, and B-cell lymphomas in a significant number of patients. Previously we have shown that HCV infection causes double-stranded DNA breaks and enhances the mutation frequency of cellular genes, including proto-oncogenes an...
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