ReviewCells2021
Unraveling the Multifaceted Nature of CD8 T Cell Exhaustion Provides the Molecular Basis for Therapeutic T Cell Reconstitution in Chronic Hepatitis B and C.
Review in Cells, 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, 15 citations in OpenAlex.
- The endemic dilemma: why whole sporozoite malaria vaccine efficacy falls in the field.Trends in parasitology · 2026Review
- Traditional Chinese Medicine in Chronic Hepatitis B: Integrating Antiviral Effects and Immune Modulation in the Context of T Cell Exhaustion.Drug design, development and therapy · 2026Review
- Immunological factors linked to geographical variation in vaccine responses.Nature reviews. Immunology · 2024Review
- Relevance of HBx for Hepatitis B Virus-Associated Pathogenesis.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
- Safety profile, antiviral capacity, and liver protection of a nasal therapeutic vaccine in patients with chronic hepatitis B: Five-year-follow-up outcomes after the end of treatment.Frontiers in medicine · 2023Article
- Role of CD8BMC emergency medicine · 2022Observational
- T and NK Cell-Based Immunotherapy in Chronic Viral Hepatitis and Hepatocellular Carcinoma.Cells · 2022Article
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Abstract
In chronic hepatitis B and C virus infections persistently elevated antigen levels drive CD8+ T cells toward a peculiar differentiation state known as T cell exhaustion, which poses crucial constraints to antiviral immunity. Available evidence indicates that T cell exhaustion is associated with a series of metabolic and signaling deregulations and with a very peculiar epigenetic status which all together lead to reduced effector functions. A clear mechanistic network explaining how intracellular metabolic derangements, transcriptional and signaling alterations so far described are interconnected in a comprehensive and unified view of the T cell exhaustion differentiation profile is still lacking. Addressing this issue is of key importance for the development of innovative strategies to boost host immunity in order to achieve viral clearance. This review will discuss the current knowledge in HBV and HCV infections, addressing how innate immunity, metabolic derangements, extensive stress responses and altered epigenetic programs may be targeted to restore functionality and responsiveness of virus-specific CD8 T cells in the context of chronic virus infections.
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