A Semi-mechanistic Model to Characterize the Long-Term Dynamics of Hepatitis B Virus Markers During Treatment With Lamivudine and Pegylated Interferon

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Antiviral treatments against hepatitis B virus (HBV) suppress viral replication but do not eradicate the virus, and need therefore to be taken lifelong to avoid relapse. Mathematical models can be useful to support the development of curative anti-HBV agents; however, they mostly focus on short-term HBV DNA data and neglect the complex host-pathogen interaction. This work aimed to characterize the effect of treatment with lamivudine and/or pegylated interferon (Peg-IFN) in 1,300 patients (hepatitis B envelope antigen (HBeAg)-positive and HBeAg-negative) treated for 1 year. A mathematical model was developed incorporating two populations of infected cells, namely I 1 , with a high transcriptional activity, that progressively evolve into I 2 , at a rate δ tr , representing cells with integrated HBV DNA that have a lower transcriptional activity. Parameters of the model were estimated in patients treated with lamivudine or Peg-IFN alone (N = 894), and the model was then validated in patients treated with lamivudine plus Peg-IFN (N = 436) to predict the virological response after a year of combination treatment. Lamivudine had a larger effect in blocking viral production than Peg-IFN (99.4-99.9% vs. 91.8-95.1%); however, Peg-IFN had a significant immunomodulatory effect, leading to an enhancement of the loss rates of I 1 (×1.7 in HBeAg-positive patients), I 2 (> ×7 irrespective of HBeAg status), and δ tr (×4.6 and ×2.0 in HBeAg-positive and HBeAg-negative patients, respectively). Using this model, we were able to describe the synergy of the different effects occurring during treatment with combination and predicted an effect of 99.99% on blocking viral production. This framework can therefore support the optimization of combination therapy with new anti-HBV agents.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:113

Enthalten in:

Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics - 113(2023), 2 vom: 01. Feb., Seite 390-400

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

El Messaoudi, Selma [VerfasserIn]
Lemenuel-Diot, Annabelle [VerfasserIn]
Gonçalves, Antonio [VerfasserIn]
Guedj, Jérémie [VerfasserIn]

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2T8Q726O95
3WJQ0SDW1A
Antiviral Agents
DNA, Viral
Hepatitis B e Antigens
Interferon-alpha
Journal Article
Lamivudine
Polyethylene Glycols
Recombinant Proteins
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 26.01.2023

Date Revised 26.02.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1002/cpt.2798

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM349218676