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ReviewAnnals of translational medicine2016

Immune therapy for hepatitis B.

Sheikh Mohammad Fazle Akbar, Mamun Al-Mahtab, Md Sakilur Islam Khan, Ruksana Raihan, Ananta Shrestha

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Review in Annals of translational medicine, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Sheikh Mohammad Fazle AkbarDepartment of Medical Sciences, Toshiba General Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
Mamun Al-MahtabDepartment of Hepatology, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Md Sakilur Islam KhanDepartment of Anatomy and Embryology, Ehime University Graduate School of Medicine, Ehime, Japan.
Ruksana RaihanDepartment of Virology, AIMST University, Semeling, Bedong, Kedah, Malaysia.
Ananta ShresthaDepartment of Hepatology, The Liver Clinic, Liver Foundation, Kathmandu, Nepal.
AIMST University · MYBangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University · BDEhime University · JPToshiba General Hospital · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although several antiviral drugs are now available for treatment of patients with chronic hepatitis B (CHB), sustained off-treatment clinical responses and containment of CHB-related complications are not achieved in majority of CHB patients by antiviral therapy. In addition, use of these drugs is endowed with substantial long term risk of viral resistance and drug toxicity. The infinite treatment regimens of antiviral drugs for CHB patients are also costly and usually unbearable by most patients of developing and resource-constrained countries. Taken together, there is a pressing need to develop new and innovative therapeutic approaches for CHB patients. Immune therapy seems to be an alternate therapeutic approach for CHB patients because impaired or distorted or diminished immune responses have been detected in most of these patients. Also, investigators have shown that restoration or induction of proper types of immune responses may have therapeutic implications in CHB. Various immunomodulatory agents have been used to treat patients with CHB around the world and the outcomes of these clinical trials show that the properties of immune modulators and nature and designing of immune therapeutic regimens seem to be highly relevant in the context of treatment of CHB patients. In this review, the general properties and specific features of immune therapy for CHB have been discussed for developing the guidelines of effective regimens of immune therapy for CHB.

Indexed as

Chronic hepatitis B (CHB)HBV antigen-specificimmune therapypathogenic immunitypolyclonal immune modulatorstherapeutic immunity

Identifiers

PMID27761439
PMCPMC5066052
OpenAlexW2514678434

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