Evidence map›Paper›PMID 18160442›Full record

ArticleJournal of virology2008

Combination of an antiviral drug and immunomodulation against hepadnaviral infection in the woodchuck model.

Mengji Lu, Xin Yao, Yang Xu, Heike Lorenz, Uta Dahmen, Haidong Chi, Olaf Dirsch, Thekla Kemper, Lifang He, Dieter Glebe and 3 more

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Article in Journal of virology, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

Mengji LuInstitut für Virologie, Universitätsklinikum Essen, Hufelandstrasse 55, 45122 Essen, Germany. mengji.lu@uni-due.de
Xin Yao
Yang Xu
Heike Lorenz
Uta Dahmen
Haidong Chi
Olaf Dirsch
Thekla Kemper
Lifang He
Dieter Glebe
Wolfram H Gerlich
Yumei Wen
Michael Roggendorf

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The essential role of multispecific immune responses for the control of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection implies the need of multimodal therapeutic strategies for chronic HBV infection, including antiviral chemotherapy and immunomodulation. This hypothesis was tested in the woodchuck model by a combination of lamivudine pretreatment and subsequent immunizations of woodchucks chronically infected with woodchuck hepatitis virus. The immunizations were performed with DNA vaccines or antigen-antibody immune complexes (IC)/DNA vaccines. Immunizations with IC/DNA vaccines led to an anti-woodchuck hepatitis virus surface antibody response and significant reductions of viral load and antigenemia, suggesting that such a strategy may be effective against chronic HBV infection.

Indexed as

Disease Models, AnimalAnimalsAntiviral AgentsHepadnaviridae InfectionsLamivudineMarmotaPlasmidsVaccines, DNAAntiviral AgentsLamivudineVaccines, DNA

Identifiers

PMID18160442
PMCPMC2258919

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