Evidence map›Paper›PMID 15520855›Full record

ReviewThe Journal of clinical investigation2004

Developing DNA vaccines that call to dendritic cells.

Michele A Kutzler, David B Weiner

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Review in The Journal of clinical investigation, 2004. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 54 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

54 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Michele A KutzlerDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA.
David B Weiner

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

DNA vaccination is a novel immunization strategy that has great potential for the development of vaccines and immune therapeutics. This strategy has been highly effective in mice, while less immunogenic in nonhuman primates and humans. Enhancing DNA vaccine potency remains a challenge. It is likely that APCs, and especially DCs, play a paramount role in the presentation of vaccine antigen to the immune system. A new study reports the synergistic recruitment, expansion, and activation of DCs in vivo in a mouse model through covaccination with plasmids encoding macrophage inflammatory protein-1alpha (MIP-1alpha), fms-like tyrosine kinase 3 ligand (Flt3L), and the DNA vaccine. Such cooperative strategies delivering vaccine in a single, simple platform result in improved cellular immunity in vivo, including enhanced tetramer responses and IFN-gamma secretion by antigen-specific cells.

Indexed as

Vaccines, DNAAnimalsCancer VaccinesChemokine CCL3Chemokine CCL4ChemokinesDendritic CellsHumansImmunity, CellularMacrophage Inflammatory ProteinsMembrane ProteinsMiceModels, BiologicalCancer VaccinesChemokine CCL3Chemokine CCL4Chemokinesflt3 ligand proteinMacrophage Inflammatory ProteinsMembrane ProteinsVaccines, DNA

Identifiers

PMID15520855
PMCPMC524242

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