Evidence map›Paper›PMID 11438836›Full record

ArticleGene therapy2001

Safety of a GM-CSF adjuvant-plasmid DNA malaria vaccine.

S E Parker, D Monteith, H Horton, R Hof, P Hernandez, A Vilalta, J Hartikka, P Hobart, C E Bentley, A Chang and 5 more

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Article in Gene therapy, 2001. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16citing papers in PubMed
8.3field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed, 71 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors at 6 institutions in 1 country.

S E ParkerVical Inc., San Diego, CA 92121, USA.
D Monteith
H Horton
R Hof
P Hernandez
A Vilalta
J Hartikka
P Hobart
C E Bentley
A Chang
R Hedstrom
W O Rogers
S Kumar
S L Hoffman
J A Norman
Vical (United States) · USBioReliance (United States) · USNaval Medical Research Command · USID Genomics (United States) · USPAST Foundation · USSierra BioMedical (United States) · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

MuStDO 5 is a multivalent plasmid DNA vaccine for malaria comprised of five plasmid DNAs encoding five proteins from Plasmodium falciparum and one plasmid DNA encoding human GM-CSF. To evaluate the safety of MuStDO 5, a series of pre-clinical studies were conducted in mice and rabbits. In pharmacology studies in mice, GM-CSF could not be detected in the serum following either intramuscular or a combined intramuscular/intradermal administration of the vaccine, but was readily detected in the muscle following intramuscular administration. In a tissue distribution study in mice, MuStDO 5 plasmid DNA was detected by PCR initially in highly vascularized tissues, while at later time-points the plasmid DNA was detected primarily at the site(s) of injection. In GLP safety studies in mice and rabbits, repeated intramuscular/intradermal administration of the MuStDO 5 vaccine was found to be safe and well tolerated without any evidence of autoimmune pathology.

Indexed as

Adjuvants, ImmunologicAnimalsAntibodies, AntinuclearFemaleGranulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating FactorInjections, IntradermalInjections, IntramuscularMalaria VaccinesMaleMiceMice, Inbred StrainsMuscle, SkeletalPlasmidsPolymerase Chain ReactionRabbitsTissue DistributionAdjuvants, ImmunologicAntibodies, AntinuclearGranulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating FactorMalaria VaccinesVaccines, DNA

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PMID11438836
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