Increased Proinflammatory Cytokine Production by Chronic Hepatitis B Patients with Mutant Hepatitis B Virus: Plausible Mechanisms Underlying Severe Liver Diseases in These Patients.

Viral Immunology
Ruksana RaihanRosmawati Binti Mohamed

Abstract

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a noncytopathic virus and billions of HBV-infected patients live uneventful lives and do not suffer from notable liver damage. However, HBV also causes progressive liver diseases characterized by hepatic inflammation, hepatic fibrosis, and liver cancer in millions of HBV-infected patients. The goal of this study was to evaluate the role of mutant HBV in HBV pathogenesis. In a cohort of 360 chronic HBV-infected patients, mutations at T1762/A1764 of HBV genome were detected in most of the patients with HBV-induced liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. To explore if mutations at T1762/A1764 of HBV genome has any role in progressive liver disease, peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) and antigen-presenting dendritic cells (DCs) were isolated from five chronic hepatitis B (CHB) patients with mutations at T1762/A1764 and five comparable patients of CHB without mutations at T1762/A1764. DCs were pulsed with hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg). The levels of cytokines produced by PBMCs and DCs as well as nitrite production by DCs were evaluated. Significantly higher levels of interleukin-12, tumor necrosis factor-alpha, interferon-gamma, and transforming growth factor-beta were detected in cultu...Continue Reading

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GM-CSF

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biopsy
density gradient centrifugation
enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay
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