ReviewJHEP reports : innovation in hepatology2021
Human hepatitis D virus-specific T cell epitopes.
Review in JHEP reports : innovation in hepatology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Article
- Host Immune Response in Chronic Hepatitis Delta: Implications for Pathogenesis and Therapy.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Sequence analysis of the hepatitis D virus across genotypes reveals highly conserved regions amidst evidence of recombination.Virus evolution · 2025Article
- Non-organ-specific autoantibodies with unspecific patterns are a frequent para-infectious feature of chronic hepatitis D.Frontiers in medicine · 2023Article
- Sequence diversity of hepatitis D virus in Mongolia.Frontiers in medicine · 2023Article
- Adaptive Immune Responses, Immune Escape and Immune-Mediated Pathogenesis during HDV Infection.Viruses · 2022Review
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4 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
HDV is a small, defective RNA virus that requires the HBsAg of HBV for its assembly, release, and transmission. Chronic HBV/HDV infection often has a severe clinical outcome and is difficult to treat. The important role of a robust virus-specific T cell response for natural viral control has been established for many other chronic viral infections, but the exact role of the T cell response in the control and progression of chronic HDV infection is far less clear. Several recent studies have characterised HDV-specific CD4+ and CD8+ T cell responses on a peptide level. This review comprehensively summarises all HDV-specific T cell epitopes described to date and describes our current knowledge of the role of T cells in HDV infection. While we now have better tools to study the adaptive anti-HDV-specific T cell response, further efforts are needed to define the HLA restriction of additional HDV-specific T cell epitopes, establish additional HDV-specific MHC tetramers, understand the degree of cross HDV genotype reactivity of individual epitopes and understand the correlation of the HBV- and HDV-specific T cell response, as well as the breadth and specificity of the intrahepatic HDV-specific T cell response.
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