| Literature DB >> 18160442 |
Mengji Lu1, Xin Yao, Yang Xu, Heike Lorenz, Uta Dahmen, Haidong Chi, Olaf Dirsch, Thekla Kemper, Lifang He, Dieter Glebe, Wolfram H Gerlich, Yumei Wen, Michael Roggendorf.
Abstract
The essential role of multispecific immune responses for the control of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection implies the need of multimodal therapeutic strategies for chronic HBV infection, including antiviral chemotherapy and immunomodulation. This hypothesis was tested in the woodchuck model by a combination of lamivudine pretreatment and subsequent immunizations of woodchucks chronically infected with woodchuck hepatitis virus. The immunizations were performed with DNA vaccines or antigen-antibody immune complexes (IC)/DNA vaccines. Immunizations with IC/DNA vaccines led to an anti-woodchuck hepatitis virus surface antibody response and significant reductions of viral load and antigenemia, suggesting that such a strategy may be effective against chronic HBV infection.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID: 18160442 PMCID: PMC2258919 DOI: 10.1128/JVI.01613-07
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Virol ISSN: 0022-538X Impact factor: 5.103