Chapter title |
Studying HBV Infection and Therapy in Immune-Deficient NOD-Rag1−/−IL2RgammaC-null (NRG) Fumarylacetoacetate Hydrolase (Fah) Knockout Mice Transplanted with Human Hepatocytes
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Chapter number | 23 |
Book title |
Hepatitis B Virus
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Published in |
Methods in molecular biology, January 2017
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DOI | 10.1007/978-1-4939-6700-1_23 |
Pubmed ID | |
Book ISBNs |
978-1-4939-6698-1, 978-1-4939-6700-1
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Authors |
Feng Li, Kouki Nio, Fumihiko Yasui, Christopher M. Murphy, Lishan Su |
Abstract |
Chimeric mouse models with a humanized liver provide a unique tool to study hepatic virus diseases, including viral infection, viral pathogenesis, and antiviral therapy. Here we describe a detailed protocol for studying hepatitis B infection in NRG-derived fumarylacetoacetate hydrolase (Fah) knockout mice repopulated with human hepatocytes. The procedures include (1) maintenance and genotyping of the homozygous NRG-fah/fah mutant mice (NRG/F), (2) intrasplenic injection of human hepatocytes, (3) NTBC drug reduction cycling to improve human hepatocyte repopulation, (4) human albumin detection, and (5) HBV infection and detection. The method is simple and allows for highly reproducible generation of NRG/F-hu Hep mice for studying HBV infection and therapy. |
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