ReviewJournal of clinical and translational hepatology2013
The Discovery and Development of a Potent Antiviral Drug, Entecavir, for the Treatment of Chronic Hepatitis B.
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- Antiviral drug discovery and development: challenges and future directions.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2026Review
- Lack of Pharmacokinetic Drug-Drug Interactions Between Bepirovirsen and Nucleos(t)ide Analogs.Clinical pharmacology in drug development · 2025Article
- Entecavir: A Review and Considerations for Its Application in Oncology.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Hepatitis B vaccination and immunotherapies: an update.Clinical and experimental vaccine research · 2020Review
- 5-Aminothiophene-2,4-dicarboxamide analogues as hepatitis B virus capsid assembly effectors.European journal of medicinal chemistry · 2019Article
- The evolution of nucleoside analogue antivirals: A review for chemists and non-chemists. Part 1: Early structural modifications to the nucleoside scaffold.Antiviral research · 2018Review
- A different inhibitor is required for overcoming entecavir resistance: a comparison of four rescue therapies in a retrospective study.British journal of clinical pharmacology · 2017Article
- [One case of newly-onset liver cancer and dual drug-resistance during treatment of hepatitis B cirrhosis with nucleos(t)ide analogues].Zhonghua gan zang bing za zhi = Zhonghua ganzangbing zazhi = Chinese journal of hepatology · 2016Article
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Abstract
Since the first approval of interferon for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection in 1992, six additional antivirals have been developed: pegylated interferon-alfa2a, and the oral antivirals lamivudine, adefovir, telbivudine, entecavir and tenofovir. The availability of animal models for HBV infection and hepatocyte cell culture led to the discovery and development of oral antivirals targeted at HBV polymerase and reverse transcriptase, which inhibit viral replication. The discovery and development of entecavir, the first oral anti-HBV drug with both potent antiviral activity and a high genetic barrier to resistance, took more than 10 years before it was first approved in the USA. Since then, multiple real-life studies have provided data consistent with the findings of the registration trials and the long-term rollover study in terms of efficacy, resistance, and safety. Data from the long-term follow-up of patients enrolled in the registration studies showed that treatment with entecavir can lead to significant improvements in liver histopathology, and recent cohort studies have demonstrated that treatment with entecavir may reduce disease progression and the development of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in patients with chronic hepatitis B. In addition, real-life studies suggest that entecavir may reduce HCC recurrence and increase survival rates in patients with HBV-related HCC post-surgical resection.
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