Hepatitis E virus (HEV) causes acute or chronic hepatitis in humans. Pigs are the primary reservoir for zoonotic HEV genotypes 3 and 4 worldwide. This study investigated the infection dynamics and genomic mutations of HEV in domestic pigs on a far...
Takahashi M   Kunita S   Kawakami M   Kadosaka T   Fujita H   Takada N   Miyake M   Kobayashi T   Ohnishi H   Nagashima S   Murata K   Okamoto H   
The hepatitis E virus (HEV) is a causative agent of hepatitis E. HEV virions in circulating blood and culture media are quasi-enveloped, while those in feces are nonenveloped. The capsid (ORF2) protein associated with an enveloped HEV virion is re...
Rat hepatitis E virus (HEV) has been isolated from wild rats worldwide and the potential of zoonotic transmission has been documented. Escherichia coli (E. coli) is utilized as an effective system for producing HEV-like particles. However, the pro...
JACC. Basic to translational science 6(3) 239-254 2021年3月
The severe shortage of donor hearts hampered the cardiac transplantation to patients with advanced heart failure. Therefore, cardiac regenerative therapies are eagerly awaited as a substitution. Human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) are re...
National Research Council (U.S.). Committee for the Update of the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, 日本実験動物学会, 鍵山, 直子, 大和田, 一雄, 國田, 智, 久原, 孝俊, 黒澤, 努