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- Title
Effects of HCV proteins in current HCV transgenic models.
- Authors
Jian Jiao; Jiangbin Wang; Sallberg, Matii
- Abstract
Hepatits C virus (HCV) is an enveloped virus with positive-sense single-stranded RNA genome that causes both acute and persistent infections associated with chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma, which needs fully functional human hepatocytes for its development. Due to the strict human tropism of HCV, only human and higher primates such as chimpanzees have been receptive to HCV infection and development, cognition about pathophysiololgy and host immune responses of HCV infection is limited by lacking of simple laboratory models of infection for a long time. During the past decade, gene transfer approaches have been helpful to the understanding of the molecular basis of human disease. Transgenic cell lines, chimeric and transgenic animal models were developed and had been demonstrated their invaluable benefits. This review focuses on the existing HCV transgenic models and summarize the relative results about probable pathophysical changes induced by HCV proteins.
- Subjects
HEPATITIS C virus; VIRAL proteins; LIVER cells; CELL lines; TRANSGENIC animals
- Publication
Hepatology Research, 2010, Vol 40, Issue 2, p115
- ISSN
1386-6346
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1872-034X.2009.00574.x