HIGH-LEVEL EXPRESSION OF HEPATITIS-B VIRAL-ANTIGENS IN FIBROSING CHOLESTATIC HEPATITIS
HIGH-LEVEL EXPRESSION OF HEPATITIS-B VIRAL-ANTIGENS IN FIBROSING CHOLESTATIC HEPATITIS
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DOI:
10.1016/0016-5085(92)90182-x
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发表时间:
1992-03-01
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影响因子:
29.4
通讯作者:
WILLIAMS, R
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作者:
LAU, JYN;BAIN, VG;WILLIAMS, R
The expression of hepatitis B viral antigens was quantified in liver tissue from four transplant recipients with fibrosing cholestatic hepatitis (FCH) and compared with five other transplant recipients who did not develop this syndrome and 30 patients with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. As measured by radioimmunoassays, the liver tissue from patients with FCH had significantly greater amounts of both hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) and nucleocapsid antigens than to transplant patients without this syndrome (P< 0.01) or patients with chronic HBV infection (P< 0.001). Intrahepatic expression of pre-S1/pre-S2in FCH was also extensive with a distribution parallel to that of HBsAg. High-level expression of intrahepatic HBsAg and hepatitis B core antigen in the explanted liver was associated with subsequent development of FCH in the liver graft, suggesting that viral/host factors may also be important. This pattern of intrahepatic hepatitis viral antigen expression, by analogy with Chisari's transgenic mice model and Roingeard's HBV-transfected HepG2 cell model, may be the cause of direct hepatocytopathic injury in this condition.