id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-000833-m6abyuvx Sekiguchi, Satoshi Immunization with a Recombinant Vaccinia Virus That Encodes Nonstructural Proteins of the Hepatitis C Virus Suppresses Viral Protein Levels in Mouse Liver 2012-12-17 .txt text/plain 5915 348 50 The HCV core protein was expressed consistently in the liver after polyinosinic acid–polycytidylic acid injection, and these mice showed chronic hepatitis C-related pathological findings (hepatocyte abnormalities, accumulation of glycogen, steatosis), liver fibrosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma. These observations, in addition to the modified histology activity index (HAI) scores, indicated that expression of HCV proteins caused chronic hepatitis in the CN2-29 (+/2) /MxCre (+/2) mice because a weak, though persistent, immune response followed an initial bout of acute hepatitis ( Figure S1 ). To determine whether activation of the host immune response caused the reduction with HCV protein levels in the livers of CN2-29 (+/2) /MxCre (+/2) mice, we used a highly attenuated VV strain, LC16m8, to generate three rVVs [12] . To determine whether rVV-N25 treatment induced the same effect in other strains of HCV transgenic mice, we analyzed RzCN5-15 (+/2) /MxCre (+/2) mice, which express all HCV proteins; in these mice, chronic hepatitis was resolved within 28 days of immunization with rVV-N25. ./cache/cord-000833-m6abyuvx.txt ./txt/cord-000833-m6abyuvx.txt