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SUBMITTER: Ren Q
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4352851 | biostudies-other | 2015 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Scientific reports 20150309
The hepatitis C virus (HCV) is one of the leading causes of chronic hepatitis, liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinomas and infects approximately 170 million people worldwide. Although several reporter systems have been developed, many shortcomings limit their use in the assessment of HCV infections. Here, we report a real-time live-cell reporter, termed the NIrD (NS3-4A Inducible rtTA-mediated Dual-reporter) system, which provides an on-off switch specifically in response to an HCV infecti ...[more]