Chronic Hbv Infection
After three decades of searching, scientists find cellular targets of Hepatitis B virus
A University of Colorado Boulder-led team has discovered two prime targets of the Hepatitis B virus in liver cells, findings that could lead to treatment of liver disease in some of the 400 million people worldwide currently ...
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Oct 22, 2012 |
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Exposure to hepatitis B virus activates immunity in young people, suggesting benefits for earlier treatment
Infectious disease experts have long thought that children, teenagers and young adults who are chronically infected with the hepatitis B virus (HBV) lack the immune cells needed to fight this pathogen. As ...
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Feb 27, 2013 |
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Stress in cells activates hepatitis viruses
People who have received a donor organ need lifelong immunosuppressant drugs to keep their immune system from attacking the foreign tissue. However, with a suppressed immune system, many infectious agents ...
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Feb 13, 2012 |
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Scientists shed light on mystery surrounding hepatitis B virus: Discovery is decades in the making
(Medical Xpress)—Scientists from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), part of the National Institutes of Health, and the University of Oxford, U.K., have shed light on a long-standing ...
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Novel therapeutic approaches to cure chronic HBV infection
Exciting new data presented today at the International Liver Congress 2013 include results from early in vitro and in vivo studies targeting covalently closed circular DNA (cccDNA), which may form the basis of a cure for ...
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