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Hepatitis C Virus
Name: Maliha Jabeen
Roll No: 21
Introduction
What is hepatitis?
 Inflammation of liver
 Can be
Viral induced
Autoimmune
hepatitis
Toxins and
drugs
Hepatitis C Virus
 Family: Flaviviridae
 Genera: Hepacivirus
 +ss RNA (9.6kb)
 6 genotypes
 3000 amino acids
 Nucleocapsid
 Lipid bilayer
 Envelope proteins
Structure
Viral Genome
History
 Choo and Kuo et al in 1989
 Mortality rate : 3% of world population
• 54,000deaths and
9,55000 disabilities
Acute
HCV
• 350,0000 deaths
• Hcc leading to liver
transplant
Chronic
HCV
Epidemology (Pakistan)
Cell to cell transmission
Pathogenesis
Innate Immunity
 First line of defense
 During HCV infection:
Type 1 IFN
production
Activates Nk
cells
Recruit virus sp
T cells
Induce
antiviral
immunity
Eliminate
hepatocytes
Elimination of Hepatocytes
Directly
Cytolytic
mechanism
Indirectly
Cytokines
secretion
Induces
antiviral state
in host cell
IFNa,g
Adaptive Immunity
After replication
Endoplasmic reticulum
MHC cell surface
HCV infection
(10% CD4+) CTLs
virus infected cells
Recoginition
Migration
Transportation
Elimination
immunopathogenesis
Destruction of HCV infected hepatocytes
perforins, TNFa
HCV fragments
Th1 of CTL activation
myeloid DCs
IL 12 produce IFN g
Draining lymph node
T cell activation
HLA class II molecules
TNf a, CD40 ligand
CD 80, CD86 Th cells
Direct attack
releases
Taken up by
Migrate to
Expresses HCV Ag on
Increase exp of
activate
Promote
maturation
of DCs
Mature DCs
Production of
cytokines
Induces
developement
releases
Diagnostic measures
Magnetic
resonance
elastography
Fibroscan Liver biopsy
Blood tests
(PCR,Ab test)
Vaccines
 No vaccines available
 Hep C virus is rapidly mutating
 Highly variable among strains
 Vaccines under developement
Preventive measures
Treatment
• Ribavirin (Copegus and Rebetol)
 oldest drug used
 treatment duration depends on other drugs a person
is taking
 dosage depends on body weight
 congenital disabilities
Daklinza ( Daclastavir and sofosbuvir)
 treatment time 12 weeks
 Dosage: 400 mg of sofosbuvir
100 mg of velpatasvir
 General fatigue, tiredness
Epclusam (Sofosbuvir and velpatasvir)
 Treatement time 12 weeks
 Dosage: 400 mg of sofosbuvir
100 mg of velpatasvir
 Gastrointestinal issues

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Hepatitis c virus

Editor's Notes

  1. Secondary results of drugs and toxins
  2. Map of the pooled mean hepatitis C virus (HCV) prevalence distribution, and the number of chronically-infected persons, across provinces of Pakistan. Footnote (Abbreviations: HCV, hepatitis C virus; F.A.T.A, Federally Administered Tribal Areas; I.C.T, Islamabad Capital Territory)
  3. A) Transmission pathways of HCV. HCV can disseminate through two routes of transmission: cell-free entry and cell-cell transmission. Cell-free entry is the classical pathway for initiation of HCV infection and requires a well-defined panel of host entry factors including SR-BI, CD81, CLDN1, OCLN and the EGFR signaling pathway [6]-[10], [12]. Cell-free entry does not require cell-cell contact and is efficiently inhibited by neutralizing antibodies (nAbs). Cell-cell transmission requires direct cell-cell contact and is resistant to nAbs present in HCV-infected patients. Cell-cell transmission is considered to play a key role for viral spread and maintenance of infection [4], [31]. (B) HCV spread and dissemination assay. The HCV spread assay monitors viral spread in cell cultures using a low number of Huh7.5.1 cells containing replicating HCVcc, which expand over a time period of 14 days [6], [8]. In the absence of nAb or presence of control antibody the virus is transmitted by cell-cell and cell-free spread (upper panel [6], [8]). Cell-free transmission can be blocked by anti-HCV nAbs allowing to study viral spread mediated by cell-cell transmission only (lower panel). (C) HCV cell-cell transmission assay [6], [7], [11]. The cell-cell transmission assay allows the investigation of cell-cell transmission and its inhibition by HTEIs. In this assay HCV+ Huh7.5.1 producer cells containing replicating HCVcc (stained by an anti-NS5A antibody and indicated in red) are co-cultured with HCV− Huh7.5 GFP target cells (indicated in green) for 24 h in the presence of nAb blocking cell-free transmission. Flow cytometry is used to quantitate infected HCV+ Huh7.5 GFP target cells (indicated by red and green), which are infected via cell-cell transmission and stained with anti-NS5A antibody
  4. Cd4 recognizes antigens presented on mhc 2 Hcv has mech to avoid recognition by ctls, reduces the exp of MHC molecules or prevent the viral peptides from presentation at cell surface.
  5. Increases exp of tnf alpha and cd40 ligand Mature dcs induce t cell activation by over exp of their surface molecules Production of cytokines that stimulate t cell activation Initiate direct attack on hcv infected hepatocyte
  6. once a day with or without food.
  7. once a day with or without food.