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Immunotherapy in Liver Diseases: A Balance Between Immunity and Tolerance
Alaknanda Mishra, Pramod K Upadhyay, Perumal Nagarajan1
1National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi - 100 067, India. nagarajan@nii.ac.in.
Abstract:
In today's context when liver diseases have spread across countries and people of all ages, it is of high importance to consider novel methods of non-toxic and long lived therapeutics. Among various therapies, immunotherapy for acute and chronic liver diseases is rapidly moving to the forefront among treatment options in hepatology medicine. Liver has a unique immuno- biological advantage which is utilized to maintain a balance between immunity and tolerance. This intricate balance of hepatic immune cells can be modulated to effect treatments in various liver diseases. The present review covers the recent advances in immunotherapy of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), viral hepatitis, cirrhosis, obesity induced inflammation, non alcoholic fatty liver diseases (NAFLD), drug induced liver injury (DILI) and disease pertaining to autoimmunity in liver.
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