Wei-Na Guo, Bin Zhu, Ling Ai, Dong-Liang Yang, Bao-Ju Wang. Animal models for the study of hepatitis B virus infection. Zoological Research, 2018, 39(1): 25-31. doi: 10.24272/j.issn.2095-8137.2018.013
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Wei-Na Guo, Bin Zhu, Ling Ai, Dong-Liang Yang, Bao-Ju Wang. Animal models for the study of hepatitis B virus infection. Zoological Research, 2018, 39(1): 25-31. doi: 10.24272/j.issn.2095-8137.2018.013
Wei-Na Guo, Bin Zhu, Ling Ai, Dong-Liang Yang, Bao-Ju Wang. Animal models for the study of hepatitis B virus infection. Zoological Research, 2018, 39(1): 25-31. doi: 10.24272/j.issn.2095-8137.2018.013
Citation:
Wei-Na Guo, Bin Zhu, Ling Ai, Dong-Liang Yang, Bao-Ju Wang. Animal models for the study of hepatitis B virus infection. Zoological Research, 2018, 39(1): 25-31. doi: 10.24272/j.issn.2095-8137.2018.013
1 Department of Infectious Diseases, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan Hubei
430022, China
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This work was supported by the Chinese National Key Technology R&D Program (2015BAI09B06), the National Science and Technology Major Project for Infectious Diseases of China (2012ZX10004503, 2017ZX10304402-002-005), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81461130019)
Even with an effective vaccine, an estimated 240 million people are chronically infected with hepatitis B virus (HBV) worldwide. Current antiviral therapies, including interferon and nucleot(s)ide analogues, rarely cure chronic hepatitis B. Animal models are very crucial for understanding the pathogenesis of chronic hepatitis B and developing new therapeutic drugs or strategies. HBV can only infect humans and chimpanzees, with the use of chimpanzees in HBV research strongly restricted. Thus, most advances in HBV research have been gained using mouse models with HBV replication or infection or models with HBV-related hepadnaviral infection. This review summarizes the animal models currently available for the study of HBV infection.
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