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Successful establishment and evaluation of a new animal model for studying the hepatitis B virus YVDD mutant.
Archives of virology - 1 Apr 2013
Ma Yan-Xiu, Song Zhi-Wei, Teng Xu, Fu Li-Juan, Hao Mei-Li, Chen Si-Jia, Xu Wei-Zhen, Gu Hong-Xi
Abstract excerpt
The treatment of infection with lamivudine-resistant mutants of hepatitis B virus (HBV) with mutations in the YMDD motif has become a crucial issue in the clinic. In this work, the plasmids pcDNA3.1 (+)-HBV/C-YVDD and pcDNA3.1 (+)-HBV/C-YMDD were constructed and injected into BALB/c mice using a hydrodynamics-based procedure to investigate viral replication and expression of HBV lamivudine-resistant YVDD mutants...
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