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ReviewPharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Recent Advances in Hepatitis B Treatment.

Georgia-Myrto Prifti, Dimitrios Moianos, Erofili Giannakopoulou, Vasiliki Pardali, John E Tavis, Grigoris Zoidis

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Review in Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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22citing papers in PubMed
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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

22 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Discovery ofInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  7. Novel Pyrazino[1,2-Viruses · 2024
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  8. Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
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  14. Cytotoxic CD4Frontiers in immunology · 2023
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  15. The sirtuin family in health and disease.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2022
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  16. Hepatitis B Therapeutic Vaccine: A Patent Review.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
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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

6 authors.

Georgia-Myrto PriftiDepartment of Pharmacy, Division of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, School of Health Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis Zografou, 15771 Athens, Greece.
Dimitrios MoianosDepartment of Pharmacy, Division of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, School of Health Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis Zografou, 15771 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-8843-0950
Erofili GiannakopoulouDepartment of Pharmacy, Division of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, School of Health Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis Zografou, 15771 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0003-2564-6628
Vasiliki PardaliDepartment of Pharmacy, Division of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, School of Health Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis Zografou, 15771 Athens, Greece.
John E TavisMolecular Microbiology and Immunology, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, MO 63104, USA.
Grigoris ZoidisDepartment of Pharmacy, Division of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, School of Health Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis Zografou, 15771 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-9442-5186

Funding

Lead optimization of Hepatitis B Virus ribonuclease H inhibitorsR01AI150610 · NIAID · SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY · PI MEYERS, MARVIN J, TAVIS, JOHN E · 2021 to 2025
$3.3M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI150610
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hepatitis B virus infection affects over 250 million chronic carriers, causing more than 800,000 deaths annually, although a safe and effective vaccine is available. Currently used antiviral agents, pegylated interferon and nucleos(t)ide analogues, have major drawbacks and fail to completely eradicate the virus from infected cells. Thus, achieving a "functional cure" of the infection remains a real challenge. Recent findings concerning the viral replication cycle have led to development of novel therapeutic approaches including viral entry inhibitors, epigenetic control of cccDNA, immune modulators, RNA interference techniques, ribonuclease H inhibitors, and capsid assembly modulators. Promising preclinical results have been obtained, and the leading molecules under development have entered clinical evaluation. This review summarizes the key steps of the HBV life cycle, examines the currently approved anti-HBV drugs, and analyzes novel HBV treatment regimens.

Indexed as

antiviral agentsantiviral therapycccDNAHBVHBV inhibitorsHBV life cycleHBV treatmenthepatitis Bhepatitis B virusnucleoside analogues

Identifiers

PMID34062711
PMCPMC8147224

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