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ReviewViruses2016

Advances and Challenges in Studying Hepatitis B Virus In Vitro.

Dvora Witt-Kehati, Maya Bitton Alaluf, Amir Shlomai

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Review in Viruses, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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20citing papers in PubMed
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 29 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Dvora Witt-KehatiThe Liver Institute, Rabin Medical Center Beilinson Hospital, Petah-Tikva, Israel. dvori.witt@gmail.com.
Maya Bitton AlalufDepartment of Medicine D, Rabin Medical Center Beilinson Hospital, Petah-Tikva, Israel. mayabitton20@yahoo.com.
Amir ShlomaiThe Liver Institute, Rabin Medical Center Beilinson Hospital, Petah-Tikva, Israel. shlomaiamir@gmail.com.
Tel Aviv University · ILRabin Medical Center · IL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a small DNA virus that infects the liver. Current anti-HBV drugs efficiently suppress viral replication but do not eradicate the virus due to the persistence of its episomal DNA. Efforts to develop reliable in vitro systems to model HBV infection, an imperative tool for studying HBV biology and its interactions with the host, have been hampered by major limitations at the level of the virus, the host and infection readouts. This review summarizes major milestones in the development of in vitro systems to study HBV. Recent advances in our understanding of HBV biology, such as the discovery of the bile-acid pump sodium-taurocholate cotransporting polypeptide (NTCP) as a receptor for HBV, enabled the establishment of NTCP expressing hepatoma cell lines permissive for HBV infection. Furthermore, advanced tissue engineering techniques facilitate now the establishment of HBV infection systems based on primary human hepatocytes that maintain their phenotype and permissiveness for infection over time. The ability to differentiate inducible pluripotent stem cells into hepatocyte-like cells opens the door for studying HBV in a more isogenic background, as well. Thus, the recent advances in in vitro models for HBV infection holds promise for a better understanding of virus-host interactions and for future development of more definitive anti-viral drugs.

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AnimalsAntiviral AgentsDisease Models, AnimalHepatitis BHepatitis B virusHepatocytesHumansAntiviral Agentshepatocye-like cellsprimary human hepatocytesvirus-host interactions

Identifiers

PMID26784218
PMCPMC4728581
OpenAlexW2233735302

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