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Modeling Hepatitis B Virus X–Induced Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Mice With the Sleeping Beauty Transposon System Δ
24 Nov 2010
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UNLABELLED: The mechanisms associated with hepatitis B virus (HBV)-induced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) remain elusive, and there are currently no well-established animal models for studying this disease. Using the Sleeping Beauty transposon as a delivery system, we introduced an oncogenic component of HBV, the hepatitis B virus X (HBx) gene, into the livers of fumarylacetoacetate hydrolase (Fah) mutant mice...
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