Safety and efficacy of anti-PD-L1 therapy in the woodchuck model of HBV infection.

Immune clearance of Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is characterized by broad and robust antiviral T cell responses, while virus-specific T cells in chronic hepatitis B (CHB) are rare and exhibit immune exhaustion that includes programmed-death-1 (PD-1) expression on virus-specific T cells. Thus, an immunot...

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Main Authors: Scott Balsitis, Volodymyr Gali, Pamela J Mason, Susan Chaniewski, Steven M Levine, Michael J Wichroski, Michael Feulner, Yunling Song, Karen Granaldi, James K Loy, Chris M Thompson, Jacob A Lesniak, Catherine Brockus, Narendra Kishnani, Stephan Menne, Mark I Cockett, Renuka Iyer, Stephen W Mason, Daniel J Tenney
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5812555?pdf=render