Abstract:
:Weak T-cell reactivity to hepatitis B virus (HBV) is thought to be the dominant cause for chronic HBV infection. Treatment with adefovir dipivoxil (ADV) increases the rate of HBV e antigen (HBeAg) loss; however, the immune mechanisms associated with this treatment response are not understood. Serial analysis of HBV-specific CD4+ T-cell reactivity was performed during 48 weeks of therapy with ADV and correlated with treatment outcome for 19 HBeAg-positive patients receiving ADV (n = 13) or the placebo (n = 6). We tested T-cell reactivity to HBV at seven protocol time points by proliferation, cytokine production, and enzyme-linked immunospot assays. A panel of serum cytokines was quantitated by cytokine bead array. ADV-treated patients showed increased CD4+ T-cell responses to HBV and lower serum levels of cytokines compared to those of placebo-treated patients. Enhanced CD4+ T-cell reactivity to HBV, which peaked at treatment week 16, was confined to a subgroup of ADV-treated patients who achieved greater viral suppression (5.3 +/- 0.3 log(10) copies/ml [mean +/- standard error of the mean {SEM}] serum HBV DNA reduction from baseline) and HBeAg loss, but not to ADV-treated patients with moderate (3.4 +/- 0.2 log(10) copies/ml [mean +/- SEM]) viremia reduction who remained HBeAg positive or to patients receiving the placebo. In conclusion, T-cell reactivity to HBV increases in a proportion of ADV-treated patients and is associated with greater suppression of HBV replication and HBeAg loss.
journal_name
Antimicrob Agents Chemotherjournal_title
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapyauthors
Cooksley H,Chokshi S,Maayan Y,Wedemeyer H,Andreone P,Gilson R,Warnes T,Paganin S,Zoulim F,Frederick D,Neumann AU,Brosgart CL,Naoumov NVdoi
10.1128/AAC.00467-07subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2008-01-01 00:00:00pages
312-20issue
1eissn
0066-4804issn
1098-6596pii
AAC.00467-07journal_volume
52pub_type
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