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Hepatitis B virus pre-S mutants, endoplasmic reticulum stress and hepatocarcinogenesis.
Cancer science - 1 Aug 2006
Wang Hui-Ching, Huang Wenya, Lai Ming-Der, Su Ih-Jen
Abstract excerpt
Although hepatitis B virus (HBV) has been documented to cause hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the exact role of HBV in the development of HCC remains enigmatic. Several hypotheses have been proposed to explain the potential mechanism, including insertional mutagenesis of HBV genomes and transcriptional activators of HBV gene products such as hepatitis B x protein (HBx) and truncated middle S mutants. In the past...
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