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ReviewViruses2016

Mouse Systems to Model Hepatitis C Virus Treatment and Associated Resistance.

Ahmed Atef Mesalam, Koen Vercauteren, Philip Meuleman

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In one paragraph

Review in Viruses, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
10citing papers in PubMed
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 13% 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

10 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Frontiers in veterinary science · 2020
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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

3 authors at 1 institution in 3 countries.

Ahmed Atef MesalamCenter for Vaccinology, Department of Clinical Chemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, Ghent University, Ghent 9000, Belgium. ahmed.mesalam@ugent.be.
Koen VercauterenCenter for Vaccinology, Department of Clinical Chemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, Ghent University, Ghent 9000, Belgium. koen.vercauteren@ugent.be.
Philip MeulemanCenter for Vaccinology, Department of Clinical Chemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, Ghent University, Ghent 9000, Belgium. philip.meuleman@ugent.be.
Ghent University Hospital · BE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

While addition of the first-approved protease inhibitors (PIs), telaprevir and boceprevir, to pegylated interferon (PEG-IFN) and ribavirin (RBV) combination therapy significantly increased sustained virologic response (SVR) rates, PI-based triple therapy for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection was prone to the emergence of resistant viral variants. Meanwhile, multiple direct acting antiviral agents (DAAs) targeting either the HCV NS3/4A protease, NS5A or NS5B polymerase have been approved and these have varying potencies and distinct propensities to provoke resistance. The pre-clinical in vivo assessment of drug efficacy and resistant variant emergence underwent a great evolution over the last decade. This field had long been hampered by the lack of suitable small animal models that robustly support the entire HCV life cycle. In particular, chimeric mice with humanized livers (humanized mice) and chimpanzees have been instrumental for studying HCV inhibitors and the evolution of drug resistance. In this review, we present the different in vivo HCV infection models and discuss their applicability to assess HCV therapy response and emergence of resistant variants.

Indexed as

Disease Models, AnimalDrug Resistance, ViralAnimalsAntiviral AgentsDrug Evaluation, PreclinicalHepacivirusHepatitis CHumansMicePan troglodytesAntiviral Agentsanimal modelsdeep sequencingdirect acting antiviral agentsHCVhumanized miceresistancetherapy

Identifiers

PMID27338446
PMCPMC4926196
OpenAlexW2470929102

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