Therapeutic strategies for hepatitis B virus infection: towards a cure

GC Fanning, F Zoulim, J Hou, A Bertoletti - Nature reviews Drug …, 2019 - nature.com
Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a common cause of liver disease globally, with a
disproportionately high burden in South-East Asia. Vaccines and nucleoside or nucleotide …

Adaptive immunity in HBV infection

A Bertoletti, C Ferrari - Journal of hepatology, 2016 - Elsevier
During hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, the presence of HBV-specific antibody producing B
cells and functional HBV-specific T cells (with helper or cytotoxic effects) ultimately …

Corticosteroid treatment of patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19)

L Zha, S Li, L Pan, B Tefsen, Y Li… - Medical Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives To assess the efficacy of corticosteroid treatment of patients with coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID‐19). Design, setting Observational study in the two COVID‐19 …

HBV DNA integration and clonal hepatocyte expansion in chronic hepatitis B patients considered immune tolerant

WS Mason, US Gill, S Litwin, Y Zhou, S Peri, O Pop… - Gastroenterology, 2016 - Elsevier
Background & Aims Chronic infection with hepatitis B virus (HBV) progresses through
different phases. The first, called the immune-tolerant phase, has been associated with a …

Hepatitis B virus persistence and reactivation

Y Shi, M Zheng - bmj, 2020 - bmj.com
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection causes chronic hepatitis and has long term complications.
Individuals ever infected with HBV are at risk of viral reactivation under certain …

HBV-induced immune imbalance in the development of HCC

Y Chen, Z Tian - Frontiers in immunology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is one of the high-risk factors for human HCC.
Despite the integration of virus DNA and the oncoprotein HBx, chronic necroinflammation …

Immune responses and immunopathology in acute and chronic viral hepatitis

EC Shin, PS Sung, SH Park - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2016 - nature.com
Hepatitis A virus (HAV), hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) are responsible
for most cases of viral hepatitis. Infection by each type of virus results in a different typical …

[PDF][PDF] Hepatitis B cure: from discovery to regulatory approval

AS Lok, F Zoulim, G Dusheiko, MG Ghany - Hepatology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The majority of persons currently treated for chronic hepatitis B require long‐term or lifelong
therapy. New inhibitors of hepatitis B virus entry, replication, assembly, or secretion and …

Liver-mediated adaptive immune tolerance

M Zheng, Z Tian - Frontiers in immunology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The liver is an immunologically tolerant organ that is uniquely equipped to limit
hypersensitivity to food-derived antigens and bacterial products through the portal vein and …

Checkpoint inhibition through small molecule-induced internalization of programmed death-ligand 1

JJ Park, EP Thi, VH Carpio, Y Bi, AG Cole… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Programmed death-ligand 1 is a glycoprotein expressed on antigen presenting cells,
hepatocytes, and tumors which upon interaction with programmed death-1, results in …