Human serum leads to differentiation of human hepatoma cells, restoration of very-low-density lipoprotein secretion, and a 1000-fold increase in HCV Japanese fulminant hepatitis type 1 titers

Michael Joyce, Bradley Thomas, Daniel M. Jones, John Law, Rodney S. Russell, Michael Houghton, D. Lorne Tyrrell

Hepatology · 2013 · 61 citations · 20 references

Abstract

We describe a convenient, cost-effective method to produce hepatocyte-like cells, which produce large amounts of virus that more closely resemble HCV present in serum of infected patients.

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