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ReviewGastroenterology2019

Cell and Animal Models for Studying Hepatitis B Virus Infection and Drug Development.

Jianming Hu, You-Yu Lin, Pei-Jer Chen, Koichi Watashi, Takaji Wakita

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Review in Gastroenterology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 71 papers.

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71citing papers in PubMed
7.9field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

71 citing papers in PubMed, 111 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Hepatitis B virus covalently closed circular DNA formation in murine hepatic cells uncovers a late entry block.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  7. [Construction of a highly efficient HBV infection cell model based on HBV co-receptor neuropilin-1].Zhonghua gan zang bing za zhi = Zhonghua ganzangbing zazhi = Chinese journal of hepatology · 2025
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  14. The Application of Organoids in the Study of Antiviral Innate Immunity.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Jianming HuThe Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania. Electronic address: juh13@psu.edu.
You-Yu LinGraduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan.
Pei-Jer ChenGraduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan; Hepatitis Research Center, National Taiwan University Hospital, National Taiwan University. Electronic address: peijerchen@ntu.edu.tw.
Koichi WatashiNational Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan.
Takaji WakitaNational Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan. Electronic address: wakita@nih.go.jp.
National Institute of Infectious Diseases · JPNational Taiwan University · TWPennsylvania State University · US

Funding

WOMEN'S HEALTH AGENDAU01AI027670 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI BENSON, CONSTANCE ANN · 1988 to 2006
$13.7M
MECHANISMS OF HEPADNAVIRUS ASSEMBLY AND REPLICATIONR01AI043453 · NIAID · PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIV HERSHEY MED CTR · PI HU, JIANMING · 1999 to 2017
$5.9M
Mechanisms of Hepadnavirus Assembly and ReplicationR37AI043453 · NIAID · PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIV HERSHEY MED CTR · PI Jianming Hu · 2018 to 2026
$3.8M
Regulation of Hepatitis B Virus Capsid AssemblyR01AI127670 · NIAID · PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIV HERSHEY MED CTR · PI HU, JIANMING · 2016 to 2020
$1.9M
Molecular Mechanism of Hepadnavirus PersistenceR01AI074982 · NIAID · PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIV HERSHEY MED CTR · PI HU, JIANMING · 2008 to 2012
$1.5M
10-Theory and Experiment for Genome Packaging in HBV NucleocapsidsR21AI077532 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE · PI HJELM, REX PAUL, HU, JIANMING · 2009 to 2010
$474k
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI043453NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI074982NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI127670NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI077532NIAID NIH HHS R37 AI043453NIAID NIH HHS U01 AI027670
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many cell culture and animal models have been used to study hepatitis B virus (HBV) replication and its effects in the liver; these have facilitated development of strategies to control and clear chronic HBV infection. We discuss the advantages and limitations of systems for studying HBV and developing antiviral agents, along with recent advances. New and improved model systems are needed. Cell culture systems should be convenient, support efficient HBV infection, and reproduce responses of hepatocytes in the human body. We also need animals that are fully permissive to HBV infection, convenient for study, and recapitulate human immune responses to HBV and effects in the liver. High-throughput screening technologies could facilitate drug development based on findings from cell and animal models.

Indexed as

Cell Culture TechniquesDisease Models, AnimalDrug DevelopmentModels, ImmunologicalAnimalsCell LineHepatitis BHepatitis B virusHumansImmune ResponseMouseTreatmentViral Infection

Identifiers

PMID30243619
PMCPMC6649672
OpenAlexW2892204235

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