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Cultivation of hepatitis C virus in primary hepatocyte culture from patients with chronic hepatitis C results in release of high titre infectious virus.
The Journal of general virology - 1 May 1996
Ito T, Mukaigawa J, Zuo J, Hirabayashi Y, Mitamura K, Yasui K
Abstract excerpt
To investigate the viral replication cycle and genomic heterogeneity of hepatitis C virus (HCV), we established an HCV cultivation system by using a primary hepatocyte culture from patients with chronic hepatitis C. Liver tissue was obtained by needle biopsy or surgery, then hepatocytes were isolated by collagenase digestion. After several weeks, we determined the HCV RNA titre of the cultured cells and...
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