Immunology, model systems, and clinical studies

Part I. Viral-Specific Immunological and Other Host Responses Studying Host Immune Responses Against Duck Hepatitis B Virus Infection Darren S. Miller, Edward M. Bertram, Catherine A. Scougall, Ieva Kotlarski, and Allison R. Jilbert Measurement of Cell-Mediated Immune Response in Woodchucks Stephan Menne and Paul J. Cote Study of Liver-Specific Expression of Cytokines During Woodchuck Hepatitis Virus Infection Mengji Lu and Michael Roggendorf Induction of Anti-Hepatitis B Virus Immune Responses Through DNA Immunization Michael Geissler, Robert Weth, Christian F. Grimm, Dorte Ortmann, and Hubert E. Blum Monitoring Gene Expression Using DNA Microarrays During Hepatitis B Virus Infection Michael R. Beard and Stephen Locarnini Determination of Hepatitis B Virus-Specific CD8+ T-Cell Activity in the Liver Michelina Nascimbeni and Barbara Rehermann Determining the Precursor Frequency of HBV Nucleocapsid Antigen-Specific T Cells Jennifer A. Waters and Howard C. Thomas Detection and Characterization of Virus-Specific CD8+ T Cells Using the Tetramer Approach Xiao-Song He and Harry B. Greenberg In Vitro Analysis of Hepatitis B Virus Specific CD4+ T Cells Shilpa Chokshi and Nikolai V. Naoumov Induction of Humoral and Cellular Immune Responses to Hepatitis Delta Virus Through DNA Immunizaiton in BALB/c Mice Ren-Shiang Lee, Shih-Jer Hsu, Li-Rung Huang, Hui-Lin Wu, Shiou-Lin Lin, Ding-Shinn Chen, and Pei-Jer Chen Part II. In Vitro and In Vivo Models Infection of Primary Chimpanzee Hepatocytes with Recombinant Hepatitis D Virus Particles: A Surrogate Model for Hepatitis B Virus Azeneth Barrera and Robert E. Lanford Study of the Endocytosis and Intracellular Localization of Subviral Particles of Hepatitis B Virus in Primary Hepatocytes Dieter Glebe and Wolfram H.Gerlich The Tupaia Model for the Study of Hepatitis B Virus: Direct Infection and HBV Genome Transduction of Primary Tupaia Hepatocytes Fritz von Weizsacker, Josef Kock, Sabine MacNelly, Shaotang Ren, Hubert E. Blum, and Michael Nassal Delivery of Hepatitis B Virus Therapeutic Agents Using Asialoglycoprotein Receptor-Based Liver-Specific Targeting Masayoshi Konishi, Catherine H. Wu, and George Y. Wu Woodchuck Hepatitis Virus Hepatocyte Culture Models Norma D. Churchill and Tomasz I. Michalak Duck Hepatitis B Virus Primary Hepatocyte Culture Model Olivier Hantz and Fabien Zoulim Enhancement of Infection of HepG2 Cells in Culture by Predigestion of Hepadnavirus with V8 Protease Xuanyong Lu and Timothy M. Block Construction of Recombinant Adenoviruses that Produce Infectious Hepatitis B Virus Martin Sprinzl, Jerome Dumortier, and Ulrike Protzer Baculovirus-Mediated Gene Transfer for the Study of Hepatitis B Virus Harriet C. Isom, Ayman M. Abdelhamed, John P. Bilello, and Thomas G. Miller Transgenic Hepatitis B Virus Mouse Model in the Study of Chemotherapy John D. Morrey Transplantation of Human Hepatocytes in Immunodeficient UPA Mice: A Model for the Study of Hepatitis B Virus Jorg Petersen, Martin R. Burda, Maura Dandri, and Charles E. Rogler Duck Hepatitis B Virus Model in the Study of Hepatitis B Virus Lucyna Cova and Fabien Zoulim Hepatitis B Virus Transgenic Severe Combined Immunodeficient Mouse Model of Acute and Chronic Liver Disease Mark A. Feitelson, Jonathan D. Larkin, and Raymond F. Schinazi The Chimpanzee Model: Contributions and Considerations for Studies of Hepatitis B Virus Pascal Gagneux and Elaine A. Muchmore Hepatitis B in Liver Transplant Recipients as a Special Model of Antiviral Drug Development Robert G. Gish and Adil