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Serum-derived hepatitis C virus infectivity in interferon regulatory factor-7-suppressed human primary hepatocytes.
Journal of hepatology - 1 Jan 2007
Aly Hussein H, Watashi Koichi, Hijikata Makoto, Kaneko Hiroyasu, Takada Yasutugu, Egawa Hiroto, Uemoto Shinji, Shimotohno Kunitada
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND/AIMS: The development of an efficient in vitro infection system for HCV is important in order to develop new anti-HCV strategy. Only Huh7 hepatocyte cell lines were shown to be infected with JFH-1 fulminant HCV-2a strain and its chimeras. Here we aimed to establish a primary hepatocyte cell line that could be infected by HCV particles from patients' sera. METHODS: We transduced primary human...
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