Chronic Viral Hepatitis and Hepatocellular Carcinoma
β Scribed by Yagil Barazani; Jonathan R. Hiatt; Myron J. Tong; Ronald W. Busuttil
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 171 KB
- Volume
- 31
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0364-2313
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The authors thank Dr. Adrian M. Di Bisceglie for helpful suggestions and discussions and also for providing the plasmid-containing, full-length HBV-DNA.
Hepatitis B viruses (HBV) with core promoter mutations (A(1762)T, G(1764)A) were found in a previous study to be highly prevalent in patients from Guangxi, China with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The aim of this study was to determine whether the mutations are prevalent in areas of Guangxi with h
## Abstract Chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a major risk factor for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). HCV proteins core and NS3 can bind to tollβlike receptor 2 (TLR2) and trigger inflammatory responses. Polymorphisms in the __TLR2__ gene predispose to various forms of malignancy but hav