Research Article

Anti-Hepatitis B Virus X Protein in Sera Is One of the Markers of Development of Liver Cirrhosis and Liver Cancer Mediated by HBV

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Examination of HBx gene in HCC tissues by PCR. The results revealed that the HBx gene-positive rate was 77.8% ( ) in HCC tissues. The PCR products of no. 1–10 HCC patients were shown. ( ) means negative control without adding template in the PCR system. ( ) means positive control using the plasmid of pCMV-X cloned HBx gene as template in the PCR system.
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