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Liver Monocytes and Kupffer Cells Remain Transcriptionally Distinct during Chronic Viral Infection.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2016
van de Garde Martijn D B, Movita Dowty, van der Heide Marieke, Herschke Florence, De Jonghe Sandra, Gama Lucio, Boonstra Andre, Vanwolleghem Thomas
Abstract excerpt
Due to the scarcity of immunocompetent animal models for chronic viral hepatitis, little is known about the role of the innate intrahepatic immune system during viral replication in the liver. These insights are however fundamental for the understanding of the inappropriate adaptive immune responses during the chronic phase of the infection. We apply the Lymphocytic Choriomenigitis Virus (LCMV) clone 13 mouse...
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