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Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a major cause of chronic hepatitis, liver cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). HCV core protein is considered as a positive regulator of telomerase activity. In this study, we focused on the deregulated microRNA-138 (miR-138) in HCV-associated HCC. Differential expression of miR-138 was determined by TaqMan quantitative real-time PCR. The target gene...
Primary liver cancer (PLC) is the third most deadly and fifth most common cancer in the world (Parkin et al. 1999), with an estimated 626,000 or 5.7% of new cancer cases and almost as many deaths in 2002 (Parkin et al. 2005). Liver cancer is an ancient disease and its description can be found in Huangdi Neijing, an ancient Chinese medical textbook also known as Yellow Emperor’s Inner Canon dated back...
Background and aim Hepatocellular carcinoma is one of the major causes of death due to cancer worldwide, and its association with hepatitis C virus infection has been definitively established. Hepatitis C virus is also involved in the pathogenesis of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. This is the only virus infecting humans that is able to induce two different malignancies. We analyzed the expression levels...
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