At least one-third of the world's population has been infected with the hepatitis B virus (HBV), and 400 million people are chronic carriers. In most populations, chronic HBV infection is the ...

VSF regulates host factors such as DNA damage binding protein 1 (DDB1) and tumor necrosis factor ... influenza, and hepatitis B and C viruses (Fig. 1). Toxicology studies in rats and dogs showed ...