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JOURNAL OF HEPATOLOGY
卷 47, 期 3, 页码 356-365出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhep.2007.04.018
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Background/Aims: The glycosphingolipid alpha-galactosylceramide has been shown to activate invariant natural killer T cells when presented in the context of CD1d and induces powerful antiviral immune responses via the production of inflammatory cytokines. The aim of this study was to investigate the safety and the antiviral activity of alpha-galactosyiceramide as a novel class of treatment for chronic hepatitis C patients. Methods: International multicenter dose-escalating randomized placebo-controlled phase I/II trial. Results:Forty patients were allocated to a dose of 0.1 mu g/kg (n = 9), 1 mu g/kg (n = 9), 10 mu g/kg (n = 11) or to placebo (n = 11). a-Galactosylceramide was well tolerated and no patients were withdrawn due to side effects. Although most patients showed a decrease in invariant natural killer T cells after administration, no clinically relevant suppression of viral replication was observed. Only one patient, a previous non-responder to peginterferon and ribavirin with high baseline invariant natural killer T cell levels, showed profound signs of immune activation, accompanied by a transient 1.3 log decrease in HCV-RNA and a concomitant increase in ALT after the first administration. Conclusions: alpha-Galactosylceramide used as monotherapy for interferon-refractory patients in doses of 0.1-10 mu g/kg is safe and it exerts moderate immunomodulatory effects. However, in its current form it has no significant effect on HCV-RNA levels. (C) 2007 European Association for the Study of the Liver. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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