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ArticleWorld journal of hepatology2015

Compartmentalization of hepatitis B virus: Looking beyond the liver.

Sibnarayan Datta

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Article in World journal of hepatology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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Sibnarayan DattaSibnarayan Datta, Molecular Virology Laboratory, Defence Research Laboratory (DRDO), Assam 784001, India.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is classically considered to be hepatotropic, but accumulating evidences strongly support its extra-hepatotropic nature too. HBV nucleic acids and proteins have long been reported in a variety of extra-hepatic tissues. Of these, HBV has been studied in details in the peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs), due to its accessibility. From these studies, it is now well established that PBMCs are permissive to HBV infection, replication, transcription and production of infective virions. Furthermore, molecular evolutionary studies have provided definite evidences towards evolution of HBV genome in PBMCs, which is independent of evolution occurring in the liver, leading to the emergence and selection of compartment specific escape variants or drug resistant strains. These variants/resistant strains of HBV remain restricted within the PBMCs and are rarely detected in the serum/plasma. In addition, HBV infected PBMCs have been reported to be directly transmitted through intrauterine modes, and this infection does not correlate significantly with serum HBV surface antigen or HBV DNA markers. This editorial briefly reviews the current knowledge on this topic, emphasizes and delineates the gaps that are required to be filled to properly understand the biological and clinical relevance of extrahepatic tropism of HBV.

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CompartmentalizationGenotypeHepatitis B virusLymphotropismPeripheral blood mononuclear cell

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PMID26380649
PMCPMC4568485

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