Toll-like receptor dual-acting agonists are potent inducers of PBMC-produced cytokines that inhibit hepatitis B virus production in primary human hepatocytes

Abstract Recombinant interferon-α (IFN-α) treatment functionally cures chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection in some individuals and suppresses virus replication in hepatocytes infected in vitro. We studied the antiviral effect of conditioned media (CM) from peripheral blood mononuclear cells (P...

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Main Authors: Vaclav Janovec, Jan Hodek, Kamila Clarova, Tomas Hofman, Pavel Dostalik, Jiri Fronek, Jaroslav Chlupac, Laurence Chaperot, Sarah Durand, Thomas F. Baumert, Iva Pichova, Barbora Lubyova, Ivan Hirsch, Jan Weber
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-07-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-69614-7