Molecular mechanistic insight of hepatitis B virus mediated hepatocellular carcinoma

• Published in: Microbial pathogenesis Vol. 128; pp. 184 - 194
• Main Authors: Chaturvedi, Vivek K., Singh, Anshuman, Dubey, Sushil K., Hetta, Helal F., John, James, Singh, M.P.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Elsevier Ltd 01.03.2019
• Subjects: apoptosis; blood serum; carcinoma; death; HBV mutants; HBx protein; Hepatitis B; Hepatitis B virus; Hepatocellular carcinoma; hepatoma; inflammation; liver; miR122; mutation; Nucleocapsid; risk factors; signal transduction; viruses; Hepatocellular carcinoma; HBV mutants; miR122; HBx protein; Nucleocapsid; Hepatitis B

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a cancer which occurs in liver and severity of this cancer makes it the sixth most prevalent cancer and second leading cause of death among all cancers. The load of hepatitis-B virus (HBV) in serum is one of the important risk factors for the HCC. Several other fact...