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Research Methods and Techniques for Acute Exacerbation of Chronic Hepatitis B

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This chapter describes modern platform and techniques, cell culture system, animal models and procedures for clinical study for AECHB and HBV-ACLF.

  1. 1.

    Most of medical research methods and techniques for CHB are also applicable on AECHB. Major research methods and technologies in patients with severe hepatitis B include detection of HBV (including detection of genetic variations), the interaction between HBV and cells (e.g. by electrophoretic mobility shift assay, chromatin immunoprecipitation, co-immunoprecipitation, yeast two-hybrid system and assays of cell apoptosis), experimental immunologic methods (e.g. flow cytometry, enzyme-linked immunospot assay and Tetramer/pentamer technology), genetics, epigenetics (e.g. methylation-specific polymerase chain reaction and fluorescence in situ hybridization) and intestinal microecology (e.g. Mitsuoka’s intestinal flora analysis, high-throughput gene sequencing technique, 16S rRNA sequencing, denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE)/temperature gradient gel electrophoresis (TGGE), et al.

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    Current cell models of HBV infection include those involving HBV infected primary hepatocytes, HBV stable expression hepatoma cell line, fusion cell line of primary hepatocyte with HepG2 and alternative cells. These models play important roles in studying the pathogenesis of HBV and for screening antiviral drugs, but each has some limitations. HepG2-sodium taurocholate cotransporting polypeptide (NTCP) cell line was established recently to explore the cellular pathology of HBV infection.

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    There has been great progress in the use of animal models of hepatitis B, but these models also have limitations. Animal models of acute liver failure include viral model, chemical drug model, surgical animal model and gene-modified animal models. One representative model is murine hepatitis virus strain-3 induced acute liver failure in BALB/cmice.

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    In recent years, there has been considerable clinical research investigating the medical treatment of severe hepatitis B. The key to clinical research design includes selection of cases and controls, sample size, end points and efficacy measures, safety evaluation, confounding factors, statistics, ethics, pharmacology and toxicology. A reasonable research plan and its strict implement are keys to success.

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    The original version of the book was inadvertently published with spelling errors in author names. The names have been corrected and details of the changes have been provided below.

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Chen, Z., Xi, D., Chen, T., Yang, DF., Mao, YM. (2019). Research Methods and Techniques for Acute Exacerbation of Chronic Hepatitis B. In: Ning, Q. (eds) Acute Exacerbation of Chronic Hepatitis B. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1606-0_2

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