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Bud C. Tennant was a researcher affiliated with Cornell University in the United States. Their academic work primarily concentrated in the fields of Medicine and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with specific subfields including Epidemiology, Animal Science and Zoology, Hepatology, Virology, and Agronomy and Crop Science.

The research topics Tennant investigated spanned across several areas related to virology and liver diseases. These included:

  • Hepatitis B Virus Studies
  • Animal Virus Infections Studies
  • Hepatitis C virus research
  • HIV Research and Treatment
  • Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
  • Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology

Among the frequent publication venues where Tennant contributed research articles were Hepatology, PLoS Pathogens, and The Veterinary Journal. Their work appeared at least twice in Hepatology.

Some of the recent papers associated with Tennant's research include the following:

  • Equine pegiviruses cause persistent infection of bone marrow and are not associated with hepatitis, 2020, PLoS Pathogens
  • Pathogenesis, MicroRNA-122 Gene-Regulation, and Protective Immune Responses After Acute Equine Hepacivirus Infection, 2021, Hepatology
  • The history of Theiler's disease and the search for its aetiology, 2022, The Veterinary Journal
  • Table of contents, 2021, Hepatology

Throughout their career, Tennant collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Joy E. Tomlinson
  • Ulrik Fahnøe
  • Himanshu Sharma
  • Louise Nielsen
  • Brad R. Rosenberg

Best Publications

  • Use of targeted glycoproteomics to identify serum glycoproteins that correlate with liver cancer in woodchucks and humans.

    Timothy M. Block;Mary Ann Comunale;Melissa Lowman;Laura F. Steel

  • The woodchuck hepatitis virus X gene is important for establishment of virus infection in woodchucks

    Hong-Shu Chen;S. Kaneko;R. Girones;R. W. Anderson

  • Hepatocarcinogenicity of the woodchuck hepatitis virus

    Hans Popper;Lois Roth;Robert H. Purcell;Bud C. Tennant

  • Elevated expression of the miR-17-92 polycistron and miR-21 in hepadnavirus-associated hepatocellular carcinoma contributes to the malignant phenotype.

    Erin Connolly;Margherita Melegari;Pablo Landgraf;Tatyana Tchaikovskaya

  • Antiviral l-Nucleosides Specific for Hepatitis B Virus Infection

    Martin L. Bryant;Edward G. Bridges;Laurent Placidi;Abdesslem Faraj

  • Sustained efficacy and seroconversion with the Toll-like receptor 7 agonist GS-9620 in the Woodchuck model of chronic hepatitis B

    Stephan Menne;Daniel B. Tumas;Katherine H. Liu;Linta Thampi

  • Lamivudine therapy of WHV-infected woodchucks

    William S. Mason;John Cullen;Gloria Moraleda;Jeffry Saputelli

  • Long-term entecavir treatment results in sustained antiviral efficacy and prolonged life span in the woodchuck model of chronic hepatitis infection.

    Richard J. Colonno;Eugene V. Genovesi;Ivette Medina;Lucinda Lamb

  • Hepatocellular carcinoma in woodchuck hepatitis virus-infected woodchucks: presence of viral DNA in tumor tissue from chronic carriers and animals serologically recovered from acute infections.

    Brent E. Korba;Brent E. Korba;Frances V. Wells;Betty Baldwin;Paul J. Cote

  • Treatment of chronic hepadnavirus infection in a woodchuck animal model with an inhibitor of protein folding and trafficking.

    Timothy M. Block;Xuanyong Lu;Anand S. Mehta;Baruch S. Blumberg;Baruch S. Blumberg

  • The precore gene of the woodchuck hepatitis virus genome is not essential for viral replication in the natural host.

    Hong-Shu Chen;M. C. Kew;W. E. Hornbuckle;B. C. Tennant

  • Antiviral activity of clevudine [L‐FMAU, (1‐(2‐fluoro‐5‐methyl‐β, L‐arabinofuranosyl) uracil)] against woodchuck hepatitis virus replication and gene expression in chronically infected woodchucks (Marmota monax)

    Simon F. Peek;Paul J. Cote;James R. Jacob;Ilia A. Toshkov

  • Identification of a previously undescribed divergent virus from the Flaviviridae family in an outbreak of equine serum hepatitis

    Sanjay Chandriani;Peter Skewes-Cox;Weidong Zhong;Donald E. Ganem

  • The woodchuck model of hepatitis B virus infection.

    Bud C. Tennant;John L. Gerin

  • Hepatocellular carcinoma in the woodchuck model of hepatitis B virus infection

    Bud C. Tennant;Ilia A. Toshkov;Simon F. Peek;James R. Jacob

  • Effects of age and viral determinants on chronicity as an outcome of experimental woodchuck hepatitis virus infection

    Paul J. Cote;Brent E. Korba;Roger H. Miller;James R. Jacob

  • Seasonal changes in serum leptin, food intake, and body weight in photoentrained woodchucks.

    P. Concannon;K. Levac;R. Rawson;B. Tennant

  • Hepadnavirus infection of peripheral blood lymphocytes in vivo: woodchuck and chimpanzee models of viral hepatitis.

    B E Korba;F Wells;B C Tennant;G H Yoakum

  • Treatment of chronic woodchuck hepatitis virus infection in the eastern woodchuck (marmota monax) with nucleoside analogues is predictive of therapy for chronic hepatitis B virus infection in humans

    Brent E. Korba;Paul Cote;William Hornbuckle;Bud C. Tennant

  • Antiviral activity and toxicity of fialuridine in the woodchuck model of hepatitis B virus infection.

    Bud C. Tennant;Betty H. Baldwin;Lou Ann Graham;Mary A. Ascenzi

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul J. Cote
Paul J. Cote Georgetown University Medical Center
John L. Gerin
John L. Gerin Georgetown University Medical Center
Brent E. Korba
Brent E. Korba Georgetown University
Robert H. Purcell
Robert H. Purcell National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Raymond F. Schinazi
Raymond F. Schinazi Emory University
Rui Hai Liu
Rui Hai Liu Cornell University
Edward J. Dubovi
Edward J. Dubovi Cornell University
Joseph H. Hotchkiss
Joseph H. Hotchkiss Cornell University
Anand Mehta
Anand Mehta Medical University of South Carolina
Hollis N. Erb
Hollis N. Erb Cornell University

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