Pathogenesis of chronic viral hepatitis: differential roles of T cells and NK cells

B Rehermann - Nature medicine, 2013 - nature.com
Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections account for 57% of
cases of liver cirrhosis and 78% of cases of primary liver cancer worldwide and cause a …

[HTML][HTML] Innate and adaptive immune responses in HCV infections

MH Heim, R Thimme - Journal of hepatology, 2014 - Elsevier
Hepatitis C virus has been identified a quarter of a decade ago as a leading cause of
chronic viral hepatitis that can lead to cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. Only a …

Direct-acting antiviral prophylaxis in kidney transplantation from hepatitis C virus–infected donors to noninfected recipients: an open-label nonrandomized trial

CM Durand, MG Bowring, DM Brown… - Annals of internal …, 2018 - acpjournals.org
Background: Given the high mortality rate for patients with end-stage kidney disease
receiving dialysis and the efficacy and safety of hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatments …

Memory-like HCV-specific CD8+ T cells retain a molecular scar after cure of chronic HCV infection

N Hensel, Z Gu, Sagar, D Wieland, K Jechow… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
In chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, exhausted HCV-specific CD8+ T cells comprise
memory-like and terminally exhausted subsets. However, little is known about the molecular …

CD39 Expression Identifies Terminally Exhausted CD8+ T Cells

PK Gupta, J Godec, D Wolski, E Adland, K Yates… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Exhausted T cells express multiple co-inhibitory molecules that impair their function and limit
immunity to chronic viral infection. Defining novel markers of exhaustion is important both for …

[PDF][PDF] Clearance of hepatitis C infection is associated with the early appearance of broad neutralizing antibody responses

WO Osburn, AE Snider, BL Wells, R Latanich… - …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The contribution of humoral immune responses to spontaneous control of hepatitis C virus
(HCV) infection remains unclear. We assessed neutralizing antibody (nAb) responses …

Spontaneous control of primary hepatitis C virus infection and immunity against persistent reinfection

WO Osburn, BE Fisher, KA Dowd, G Urban, L Liu… - Gastroenterology, 2010 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND & AIMS: We followed patients with ongoing hepatitis C virus (HCV)
exposure following control of an initial HCV infection to determine whether primary control …

Acute hepatitis C

A Maheshwari, S Ray, PJ Thuluvath - The Lancet, 2008 - thelancet.com
Symptomatic acute hepatitis C occurs in only about 15% of patients who are infected with
hepatitis C virus (HCV). Acute hepatitis C is most often diagnosed in the setting of post …

Hepatitis C virus continuously escapes from neutralizing antibody and T-cell responses during chronic infection in vivo

T Von Hahn, JC Yoon, H Alter, CM Rice, B Rehermann… - Gastroenterology, 2007 - Elsevier
Background & Aims: Broadly reactive neutralizing antibodies (nAbs) and multispecific T-cell
responses are generated during chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and yet fail to clear …

Self-amplifying mRNA vaccines

LA Brito, S Kommareddy, D Maione, Y Uematsu… - Advances in …, 2015 - Elsevier
This chapter provides a brief introduction to nucleic acid-based vaccines and recent
research in developing self-amplifying mRNA vaccines. These vaccines promise the …