supported by National Key R&D Program(2017YFA0103803);National Natural Science Foundation of China(31890784);National Key R&D Program(2016YFA0500903,2016YFA0503300).
Unlike most organs that mature during the fetal period,the male reproductive system reaches maturity only at puberty with the commencement of spermatogenesis.Robust modelling of human testicular organogenesis in vitro...
We thank Prof. Tungtien Sun for the guidance of the written manuscript. This work was supported by National Key Research and Development Program of China (2017YFA0104003,2017YFA0103000,2018YFA0108102);National Natural Science Foundation of China(31730059,31521004,81670590);SLS-Qidong Innovation Fund(2016000663);National Basic Research Program of China(973 Program 2015CB964703).
Terminally differentiated cells can be generated by lineage reprogramming,which is,however,hindered by incomplete conversion with residual initial cell identity and partial functionality. Here, we demonstrate a new re...
Acknowledgments We are grateful to Drs T Wakita (National Institute of Infec- tious Diseases, Japan) for pJFH-1 clone, F Chisari (The Scripps Research Institute) for Huh7.5.1 cell line, L Su (University of North Carolina) for cDNA clones of human CD81 and Occludin, and C Rice (The Rockefeller University) for NS5A antibody. We thank Drs Y Tian and S Meng for making a series of transgenic mice; C-X Wei for the genotyping of transgenic mice. We thank Drs L Su, Y-X Fu (The University of Chicago), R Sun (University of California, Los Angeles) and P Hertzog (Monash University, Australia) for their critical reading and comments on the manuscript. This work was supported by grants from the National Basic Research Program of China (2009CB522506 and 2011CB946104 to HT, 2009CBl18903 to XC, and 2010CB530100 to LP), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31200135 to XC and 31030031 to HT), Knowledge Innovation Program Projects of Chinese Academy of Science (2010-Biols-CAS-0201to HT, and KSCXI-YW-10 to XC and HT).
The majority of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection develops chronic infection, which causes steatosis, cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. However, understanding HCV chronicity and pathogenesis is hampered by its...
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