Lifestyle-Related Diseases of the Digestive System: A New In Vitro Model of Hepatitis C Virion Production: Application of Basic Research on Hepatitis C Virus to Clinical Medicine

• Main Authors: Satoru Saito (Author), Theo Heller (Author), Masato Yoneda (Author), Hirokazu Takahashi (Author), Atsushi Nakajima (Author), Jake T. Liang (Author)
• Format: Bog
• Udgivet: Elsevier, 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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The hepatitis C virus (HCV) is an enveloped virus with a single positive-strand RNA genome of about 9.6 kb. It is a major cause of liver disease worldwide. Clear understanding of the viral life cycle has been hampered by the lack of a robust cell culture system. While the development of the HCV repl...