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Quantitative analysis of HBV cccDNA from clinical specimens: correlation with clinical and virological response during antiviral therapy.
Journal of viral hepatitis - 1 Jan 2007
Bourne E J, Dienstag J L, Lopez V A, Sander T J, Longlet J M, Hall J G, Kwiatkowski R W, Wright T, Lai C L, Condreay L D
Abstract excerpt
Attempts to investigate changes in various forms of intrahepatic hepatitis B virus (HBV) DNA during antiviral therapy have been hampered by limitations in technologies and scarcity of adequate tissue for analysis. We used a sensitive, specific assay to detect and quantitate covalently closed circular DNA (cccDNA) from total intrahepatic HBV DNA in clinical liver specimens. Total HBV DNA and cccDNA from 21...
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