Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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3254201 | Best Practice & Research Clinical Gastroenterology | 2012 | 11 Pages |
Abstract
Owing to the tremendous effort from both academia and industry, drug development for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection has been flourishing, with a range of pipeline compounds at various stages of development. Although combination of the recently launched serine protease inhibitors will further improve the response rate of current interferon-based therapy, some intrinsic limitations of these compounds and the tendency of resistance development by the virus, urge the development of alternative or additional therapeutic strategies. In this article we provide an overview of different host and viral factors which have emerged as new potential targets for therapeutic intervention using state-of-the-art technologies.
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Qiuwei Pan, Luc J.W. van der Laan,