Samuel Al Hall, Gareth S Burns, Benjamin J Mooney, Rosemary Millen, Rachel Morris, Sara Vogrin, Vijaya Sundararajan, Dilip Ratnam, Miriam T Levy, John S Lubel, Amanda J Nicoll, Simone I Strasser, William Sievert, Paul V Desmond, Meng C Ngu, Peter Angus, Marie Sinclair, Christopher Meredith, Gail Matthews, Peter A Revill, Kathy Jackson, Margaret Littlejohn, Scott Bowden, Stephen A Locarnini, Alexander J Thompson, Kumar Visvanathan
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: We evaluated the patterns of peripheral TLR signalling activity and the expression of TLRs and NK cell activation in a cohort of patients experiencing severe hepatitis flares after stopping NA therapy. METHODS: Samples were collected longitudinally from CHB patients enrolled in a prospective study of NA discontinuation. Patients experiencing hepatitis flares were compared to patients with normal ALT. PBMC were stimulated with TLR ligands and cytokine secretion in the cell culture supernatant measured...
September 15, 2022: Journal of Infectious Diseases