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Treatments for HBV: A Glimpse into the Future

The hepatitis B virus is responsible for most of the chronic liver disease and liver cancer worldwide. As actual therapeutic strategies have had little success in eradicating the virus from hepatocytes, and as lifelong treatment is often required, new drugs targeting the various phases of the hepati...

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Autores principales: Bartoli, Alessandra, Gabrielli, Filippo, Tassi, Andrea, Cursaro, Carmela, Pinelli, Ambra, Andreone, Pietro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8473442/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34578347
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/v13091767
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author Bartoli, Alessandra
Gabrielli, Filippo
Tassi, Andrea
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Pinelli, Ambra
Andreone, Pietro
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description The hepatitis B virus is responsible for most of the chronic liver disease and liver cancer worldwide. As actual therapeutic strategies have had little success in eradicating the virus from hepatocytes, and as lifelong treatment is often required, new drugs targeting the various phases of the hepatitis B virus (HBV) lifecycle are currently under investigation. In this review, we provide an overview of potential future treatments for HBV.
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spelling pubmed-84734422021-09-28 Treatments for HBV: A Glimpse into the Future Bartoli, Alessandra Gabrielli, Filippo Tassi, Andrea Cursaro, Carmela Pinelli, Ambra Andreone, Pietro Viruses Review The hepatitis B virus is responsible for most of the chronic liver disease and liver cancer worldwide. As actual therapeutic strategies have had little success in eradicating the virus from hepatocytes, and as lifelong treatment is often required, new drugs targeting the various phases of the hepatitis B virus (HBV) lifecycle are currently under investigation. In this review, we provide an overview of potential future treatments for HBV. MDPI 2021-09-04 /pmc/articles/PMC8473442/ /pubmed/34578347 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/v13091767 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Treatments for HBV: A Glimpse into the Future
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