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 …

Getting to HBV cure: The promising paths forward

S Fung, HSJ Choi, A Gehring, HLA Janssen - Hepatology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Chronic HBV infection is a global public health burden estimated to impact nearly 300
million persons worldwide. Despite the advent of potent antiviral agents that effectively …

Asian-Pacific clinical practice guidelines on the management of hepatitis B: a 2015 update

SK Sarin, M Kumar, GK Lau, Z Abbas, HLY Chan… - Hepatology …, 2016 - Springer
Worldwide, some 240 million people have chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV), with the highest
rates of infection in Africa and Asia. Our understanding of the natural history of HBV infection …

Therapeutic cancer vaccines

CJM Melief, T van Hall, R Arens… - The Journal of …, 2015 - Am Soc Clin Investig
The clinical benefit of therapeutic cancer vaccines has been established. Whereas
regression of lesions was shown for premalignant lesions caused by HPV, clinical benefit in …

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 …

[PDF][PDF] Present and future therapies of hepatitis B: from discovery to cure

TJ Liang, TM Block, BJ McMahon, MG Ghany… - …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a significant global pathogen, infecting more than 240 million
people worldwide. While treatment for HBV has improved, HBV patients often require …

Fcγ receptor function and the design of vaccination strategies

S Bournazos, JV Ravetch - Immunity, 2017 - cell.com
Through specific interactions with distinct types of Fcγ receptors (FcγRs), the Fc domain of
immunoglobulin G (IgG) mediates a wide spectrum of immunological functions that influence …

Advances in targeting the innate and adaptive immune systems to cure chronic hepatitis B virus infection

Z Meng, Y Chen, M Lu - Frontiers in Immunology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
“Functional cure” is being pursued as the ultimate endpoint of antiviral treatment in chronic
hepatitis B (CHB), which is characterized by loss of HBsAg whether or not anti-HBs …

[HTML][HTML] Enhanced immune response to hepatitis B vaccination through immunization with a Pre-S1/Pre-S2/S vaccine

D Shouval, H Roggendorf, M Roggendorf - Medical microbiology and …, 2015 - Springer
Efficacy and safety of recombinant yeast-derived hepatitis B vaccines for prevention of
hepatitis B have been demonstrated unequivocally worldwide as reflected in reduction in …

[HTML][HTML] Immunotherapy for chronic hepatitis B virus infection

A Bertoletti, N Le Bert - Gut and liver, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
While new therapies for chronic hepatitis C virus infection have delivered remarkable cure
rates, curative therapies for chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection remain a distant goal …