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ArticleJournal of virology2011

Electroporation enhances immunogenicity of a DNA vaccine expressing woodchuck hepatitis virus surface antigen in woodchucks.

Katherine H Liu, Mary A Ascenzi, Christine A Bellezza, Abraham J Bezuidenhout, Paul J Cote, Gloria Gonzalez-Aseguinolaza, Drew Hannaman, Alain Luxembourg, Claire F Evans, Bud C Tennant and 1 more

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Article in Journal of virology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9 citing papers in PubMed, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. [Immune modulation treatment of chronic hepatitis B virus infection].Zhonghua gan zang bing za zhi = Zhonghua ganzangbing zazhi = Chinese journal of hepatology · 2015
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11 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Katherine H LiuDepartment of Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA.
Mary A Ascenzi
Christine A Bellezza
Abraham J Bezuidenhout
Paul J Cote
Gloria Gonzalez-Aseguinolaza
Drew Hannaman
Alain Luxembourg
Claire F Evans
Bud C Tennant
Stephan Menne
Cornell University · USIchor Medical Systems (United States) · USGeorgetown University · USUniversidad de Navarra · ES

Funding

ANIMAL MODEL EVALUATION OF CANDIDATE HEPATITIS THERAPIESN01AI005399 · NIAID · CORNELL UNIVERSITY ITHACA · PI TENNANT, BUD C · 2000 to 2000
$1.4M
Development of a DNA Vaccine for Chronic HBV InfectionR43AI066520 · NIAID · ICHOR MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC. · PI EVANS, CLAIRE FRANCES · 2006 to 2007
$463k
NIAID NIH HHS AI66520NIAID NIH HHS N01 AI005399NIAID NIH HHS R43 AI066520
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The development of therapeutic vaccines for chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection has been hampered by host immune tolerance and the generally low magnitude and inconsistent immune responses to conventional vaccines and proposed new delivery methods. Electroporation (EP) for plasmid DNA (pDNA) vaccine delivery has demonstrated the enhanced immunogenicity of HBV antigens in various animal models. In the present study, the efficiency of the EP-based delivery of pDNA expressing various reporter genes first was evaluated in normal woodchucks, and then the immunogenicity of an analog woodchuck hepatitis virus (WHV) surface antigen (WHsAg) pDNA vaccine was studied in this model. The expression of reporter genes was greatly increased when the cellular uptake of pDNA was facilitated by EP. The EP of WHsAg-pDNA resulted in enhanced, dose-dependent antibody and T-cell responses to WHsAg compared to those of the conventional hypodermic needle injection of WHsAg-pDNA. Although subunit WHsAg protein vaccine elicited higher antibody titers than the DNA vaccine delivered with EP, T-cell response rates were comparable. However, in WHsAg-stimulated mononuclear cell cultures, the mRNA expression of CD4 and CD8 leukocyte surface markers and Th1 cytokines was more frequent and was skewed following DNA vaccination compared to that of protein immunization. Thus, the EP-based vaccination of normal woodchucks with pDNA-WHsAg induced a skew in the Th1/Th2 balance toward Th1 immune responses, which may be considered more appropriate for approaches involving therapeutic vaccines to treat chronic HBV infection.

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ElectroporationAnimalsAntibodies, ViralAntigens, SurfaceFemaleHepatitis B VaccinesHepatitis B Virus, WoodchuckMarmotaPlasmidsTh1 CellsT-LymphocytesVaccinationVaccines, DNAViral ProteinsAntibodies, ViralAntigens, SurfaceHepatitis B VaccinesVaccines, DNAViral Proteins

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PMID21389124
PMCPMC3126190
OpenAlexW2168070818

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