ReviewGut and liver2024
Toward a Functional Cure for Hepatitis B.
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55 citing papers in PubMed, 52 citations in OpenAlex.
- In Silico Clinical Trials in Drug Development: Virtual Patients, Applications, and Regulatory Convergence.Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics · 2026Review
- Development of an investigational epigenetic silencer therapy to transcriptionally inactivate viral DNA in chronic hepatitis B.Nature biomedical engineering · 2026Article
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- Synthesis of Nitazoxanide Derivatives as Potent and Orally Available HBx-DDB1 Inhibitors against Hepatitis B Virus.ACS medicinal chemistry letters · 2026Article
- Hepatitis B Surface Antigen Loss and Improved Clinical Outcomes in US Individuals With Chronic Hepatitis B Virus Infection.Journal of viral hepatitis · 2026Article
- Noninvasive models for patient selection and Early response monitoring of interferon therapy for HBsAg clearance in patients with chronic hepatitis B.BMC infectious diseases · 2026Article
- Lead Optimization of Xanthone Derivatives as Hepatitis B Virus cccDNA Reducers: Design, Synthesis, and Bioevaluation.ACS medicinal chemistry letters · 2026Article
- Assembly-active and -inactive forms of HBV capsid protein provide distinctly different binding sites for capsid assembly modulators.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Hepatitis B virus ribonuclease H inhibitors: Coming of age?Antiviral research · 2026Review
- An HBV-Derived Peptide Poly6 as a Novel Candidate for Functional Cure Via IFN-I-Mediated Epigenetic Regulation of cccDNA.Journal of medical virology · 2026Article
- Long-term Dynamic Virological Response Patterns and Clinical Outcomes in Hepatitis B Virus-related Cirrhosis: A Real-world 10-year Cohort Study.Journal of clinical and translational hepatology · 2026Article
- Effects of tenofovir amibufenamide and entecavir on estimated glomerular filtration rate in treatment-naïve patients with chronic hepatitis B.World journal of hepatology · 2026Article
- Adenine Base Editing Potently Suppresses Hepatitis B Surface Antigen Expression and Inhibits Hepatitis D Virus Release.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Dynamics and Sensitivity of the Lifecycle of Hepatitis B Virus.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Combination therapies for chronic hepatitis B in the era of emerging novel drugs.Hepatology international · 2026Review
- Niemann-Pick type C1 protein regulates epidermal growth factor receptor stability in hepatic cells and facilitates the early steps of Hepatitis B virus infection.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2026Article
- Altered expression of ADAR1, N4BP1, and PSME1 in PBMCs correlated with therapeutic outcomes in HBeAg-negative chronic hepatitis B patients treated with Peg-IFN-α.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2026Observational
- Efficacy of pegylated interferon alpha in treating postpartum women with chronic hepatitis B virus infection: a multicenter prospective study.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2026Article
- Clinical Characteristics and Factors Associated with Hair Loss Severity in Chronic Hepatitis B Patients Receiving Pegylated Interferon-Alpha: A Retrospective Cohort Study.Clinical, cosmetic and investigational dermatology · 2026Article
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Abstract
Current treatment of chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, pegylated interferon-α (pegIFN-α) and nucleos(t)ide analogue (NA), can suppress HBV replication, reverse liver inflammation and fibrosis, and decrease risks of cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma, but hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) loss is rare. Functional HBV cure is defined as undetectable HBsAg and unquantifiable serum HBV DNA for at least 24 weeks after a finite course of therapy. This requires suppression of HBV replication and viral protein production as well as restoration of immune response to HBV. Direct-acting antivirals targeting virus entry, capsid assembly, viral protein production and secretion are in clinical trials. In parallel, immune modulatory therapies to stimulate HBV-specific immune response and to remove immune blockade are being tested. Clinical trials of direct-acting antivirals alone or immune modulatory therapies alone have not been successful in achieving HBV cure. Recent combinations of direct-acting antivirals and immune modulatory therapies have shown promising results particularly with combinations that included pegIFN-α. These results need to be confirmed in larger studies with longer follow-up, and further work is needed to develop simpler regimens with fewer drugs that can be administered orally and safely. While there is a strong desire to develop finite therapies that can achieve HBV cure, safety is paramount and new therapies must provide incremental value compared to standard of care, which is predominantly long-term NA therapy.
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