Evidence map›Paper›PMID 17202215›Full record

ArticleJournal of virology2007

Understanding the failure of CD8+ T-cell vaccination against simian/human immunodeficiency virus.

Rob J De Boer

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Article in Journal of virology, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 28 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
28citing papers in PubMed
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 19% 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

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed, 68 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

  • Erratum issued
5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Rob J De BoerTheoretical Biology UU, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands. r.j.deboer@bio.uu.nl
Utrecht University · NL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although CD8+ T cells play an important role in controlling viral infections, boosting specific CD8+ T cells by prophylactic vaccination with simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) epitopes fails to provide sterilizing immunity. Viral replication rates and viral contraction rates after the peak viremia hardly depend on the presence of memory CD8+ T cells. To study these paradoxical findings, we parameterize novel mathematical models for acute SIV and human immunodeficiency virus infection. These models explain that failure of vaccination is due to the fact that effector/target ratios are too low during the viral expansion phase. Because CD8+ T cells require cell-to-cell contacts, immune protection requires high effector/target ratios at the primary site of infection. Effector/target ratios become favorable for immune control at the time of the peak in the viral load when the virus becomes limited by other factors, such as the availability of uninfected target cells. At the viral set point, effector/target ratios are much higher, and perturbations of the number of CD8+ effector cells have a large impact on the viral load. Such protective effector/target ratios are difficult to achieve with nucleic acid- or protein-based vaccines.

Indexed as

VaccinationAcute DiseaseAnimalsCD8-Positive T-LymphocytesHIVHIV InfectionsHumansModels, TheoreticalSimian Acquired Immunodeficiency SyndromeSimian Immunodeficiency VirusVirus Replication

Identifiers

PMID17202215
PMCPMC1865966
OpenAlexW2108784545

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