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ReviewHepatology international2025

Do the therapeutic vaccines hold hope for the treatment of hepatitis B?

Qiujing Yan, Xinghuan Fu, Yan Wang, Guiqiang Wang

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Review in Hepatology international, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Qiujing YanDepartment of Infectious Disease, Center for Liver Disease, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, China.
Xinghuan FuDepartment of Infectious Disease, Center for Liver Disease, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, China.
Yan WangDepartment of Infectious Disease, Center for Liver Disease, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, China. wangyanwang@bjmu.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8577-0527
Guiqiang WangDepartment of Infectious Disease, Center for Liver Disease, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, China. john131212@126.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0317-7536

Funding

Beijing postdoctoral research activities innovation research and development fund 2024-zz-102National Natural Science Foundation of China 81870417National Natural Science Foundation of China 82070605National Natural Science Foundation of China 82270626Peking University First Hospital 2022CR63Peking University First Hospital 2025SF052Science and Technology Department of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region 2020A03004-3
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundChronic hepatitis B (CHB) is a global disease that can induce severe conditions such as cirrhosis and liver cancer, posing a serious threat to human health. The low functional cure rate of existing antiviral treatment drugs is primarily due to the dysfunctional immune response in CHB patients and the difficulty in clearing intrahepatic cccDNA.

methodsThis article reviews the latest progress in the research on therapeutic vaccines for CHB, to analyze and discuss the potential impact of current achievements and to outline the prospects for future research, exploring therapeutic strategies for the functional cure of CHB.

resultsTherapeutic vaccines are anticipated to activate specific immune responses in CHB patients, break the mechanisms of immune tolerance, and exhibit significant potential in maintaining long-term immune activity. Several therapeutic vaccines have already demonstrated promising therapeutic effects.

conclusionsTherapeutic vaccines are of great significance in the field of CHB treatment. Current research achievements provide strong support for their application, while combined therapy offers new ideas and hope for future treatment directions.

Indexed as

Hepatitis B, ChronicHepatitis B VaccinesAntiviral AgentsHepatitis B virusHumansAntiviral AgentsHepatitis B VaccinesChronic hepatitis BFunctional cureImmune toleranceTherapeutic vaccines

Identifiers

PMID41014398
PMCPMC12714817

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