Research Article Details
Article ID: | A10449 |
PMID: | 31333307 |
Source: | World J Gastroenterol |
Title: | Hepatocellular carcinoma: Therapeutic advances in signaling, epigenetic and immune targets. |
Abstract: | Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) remains a global medical burden with rising incidence due to chronic viral hepatitis and non-alcoholic fatty liver diseases. Treatment of advanced disease stages is still unsatisfying. Besides first and second generation tyrosine kinase inhibitors, immune checkpoint inhibitors have become central for the treatment of HCC. New modalities like epigenetic therapy using histone deacetylase inhibitors (HDACi) and cell therapy approaches with chimeric antigen receptor T cells (CAR-T cells) are currently under investigation in clinical trials. Development of such novel drugs is closely linked to the availability and improvement of novel preclinical and animal models and the identification of predictive biomarkers. The current status of treatment options for advanced HCC, emerging novel therapeutic approaches and different preclinical models for HCC drug discovery and development are reviewed here. |
DOI: | 10.3748/wjg.v25.i25.3136 |

Strategy ID | Therapy Strategy | Synonyms | Therapy Targets | Therapy Drugs | |
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S16 | Immunotherapy | -- | -- | -- | Details |
S17 | Genetic therapy | Genetic approaches; genetherapy; Gene therapy | HSD17B13 inhibitor; PNPLA3-rs7 38409 (I148M) variant inhibitor; PNPLA3 expression down-regulator | INI-678; Momelotinib | Details |
S03 | Anti-fibrosis | fibrosis | Angiotensin Receptor Blocker (ARB); CCR2/CCR5 antagonist; Thyroid receptor β agonist; PEGylated human FGF21 analogue; Monoclonal antibody to lysyl oxidase-like 2 (LOXL2); Galectin-3 inhibitor; FGF19 variant | Losartan; Cenicriviroc; VK-2809; MGL-3196; Pegbelfermin; Simtuzumab; GR-MD-02; NGM282 | Details |
S15 | Cell therapy | Mesenchymal stem cells; Stem cell therapy | -- | -- | Details |
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