Hepatology: From Natural History to Therapeutics—Second Edition
A special issue of Cells (ISSN 2073-4409). This special issue belongs to the section "Cellular Pathology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2024) | Viewed by 441
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Interests: HCV; HBV; cirrhosis; HCC
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Dear Colleagues,
In 1986, Prof. Jay Hoofnagle had not become the Digestive Diseases and Nutrition Division director at the NIDDK, NIH. However, he had already published pioneering work on Hepatitis B interferon treatment. In December 1986, his seminal article on a treatment with the recombinant human alpha interferon of chronic non-A non-B hepatitis—later called HCV hepatitis—began a new era in hepatitis C research and hepatology. Until then, it was believed that hepatitis C was untreatable, the natural history of viral hepatitis had not been completely elucidated, and diagnostic assays for hepatitis B and C had not been developed.
The availability of an antiviral treatment for chronic hepatitis attracted interest in liver diseases, and the eventual approval of using interferon for hepatitis B and C treatments was the driver for supporting research in the field.
What are the remaining issues in hepatology? Some of the remaining challenges researchers face are how a treatment based on oral direct-acting antivirals impacts HCV hepatitis outcomes; when the experimental compounds for hepatitis B and delta treatments will become available, and how they will be used; whether the diagnostics of HBV-related diseases will change now and how efforts to reach underserved populations will succeed, such as homeless people and those at high risk of HCV infection transmission.
This honorary issue, celebrating Prof. Jay Hoofnagle, collects a series of essays on liver disease pathogenesis and treatment, exploring how Prof. Hoofnagle’s action—including the most recent study on DILI—promoting liver disease research, training, and education have introduced global significant changes in the field of liver diseases.
Prof. Dr. Alessandra Mangia
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- HCV
- HBV
- cirrhosis
- HCC
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