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ReviewActa pharmaceutica Sinica. B2014

Therapeutic strategies for a functional cure of chronic hepatitis B virus infection.

Jinhong Chang, Fang Guo, Xuesen Zhao, Ju-Tao Guo

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Review in Acta pharmaceutica Sinica. B, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
36citing papers in PubMed
3.4field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

36 citing papers in PubMed, 55 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jinhong ChangDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Doylestown, PA 18902, USA.
Fang GuoDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Doylestown, PA 18902, USA.
Xuesen ZhaoDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Doylestown, PA 18902, USA.
Ju-Tao GuoDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Doylestown, PA 18902, USA.
Drexel University · US

Funding

Development of Fluorinated Sulfamoylbenzamide Derivatives as Antiviral Agents agaR43AI104066 · NIAID · ENANTIGEN THERAPEUTICS, INC. · PI GUO, JU-TAO, XU, XIAODONG · 2013 to 2013
$295k
NIAID NIH HHS R43 AI104066
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Treatment of chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection with the viral DNA polymerase inhibitors or pegylated alpha-interferon has led to a significant retardation in HBV-related disease progression and reduction in mortality related to chronic hepatitis B associated liver decompensation and hepatocellular carcinoma. However, chronic HBV infection remains not cured. The reasons for the failure to eradicate HBV infection by long-term antiviral therapy are not completely understood. However, clinical studies suggest that the intrinsic stability of the nuclear form of viral genome, the covalently closed circular (ccc) DNA, sustained low level viral replication under antiviral therapy and homeostatic proliferation of hepatocytes are the critical virological and pathophysiological factors that affect the persistence and therapeutic outcomes of HBV infection. More importantly, despite potent suppression of HBV replication in livers of the treated patients, the dysfunction of HBV-specific antiviral immunity persists. The inability of the immune system to recognize cells harboring HBV infection and to cure or eliminate cells actively producing virus is the biggest challenge to finding a cure. Unraveling the complex virus-host interactions that lead to persistent infection should facilitate the rational design of antivirals and immunotherapeutics to cure chronic HBV infection.

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Antiviral agentscccDNAHepatitis B virus

Identifiers

PMID26579392
PMCPMC4629125
OpenAlexW2042445786

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