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Bile acids specifically increase hepatitis C virus RNA-replication.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Chhatwal Patrick, Bankwitz Dorothea, Gentzsch Juliane, Frentzen Anne, Schult Philipp, Lohmann Volker, Pietschmann Thomas
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) patients with high serum levels of bile acids (BAs) respond poorly to IFN therapy. BAs have been shown to increase RNA-replication of genotype 1 but not genotype 2a replicons. Since BAs modulate lipid metabolism including lipoprotein secretion and as HCV depends on lipids and lipoproteins during RNA-replication, virus production and cell entry, BAs may affect multiple steps of...
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