Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, April 29th, 2003
"The study of hepatitis C virus, a major cause of chronic liver disease, has been hampered by the lack of a cell culture system supporting its replication. ... [W]e have successfully generated infectious pseudo-particles that were assembled by displaying unmodified and functional HCV glycoproteins onto retroviral and lentiviral core particles," reported B. Bartosch and colleagues.
They used a green fluorescent protein marker gene within the pseudo-particles to visualize HCV glycoprotein-mediated...
Want to see the full article?
Welcome to NewsRx!
Learn more about a six-week, no-risk free trial of TB and Outbreaks Week
NewsRx also is available at LexisNexis, Gale, ProQuest, Factiva, Dialog, Thomson Reuters, NewsEdge, and Dow Jones.