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ReviewJournal of molecular medicine (Berlin, Germany)2011

Peptide-MHC-based nanovaccines for the treatment of autoimmunity: a "one size fits all" approach?

Xavier Clemente-Casares, Sue Tsai, Yang Yang, Pere Santamaria

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Review in Journal of molecular medicine (Berlin, Germany), 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 24% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed, 35 citations in OpenAlex.

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  12. Engineering nano- and microparticles to tune immunity.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2012
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  13. Antigen-specific therapeutic approaches in Type 1 diabetes.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine · 2012
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Xavier Clemente-CasaresJulia McFarlane Diabetes Research Centre and Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Institute of Inflammation, Infection and Immunity, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Sue Tsai
Yang Yang
Pere Santamaria
University of Calgary · CA

Funding

Canadian Institutes of Health Research
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nanotechnology offers enormous potential in drug delivery and in vivo imaging. Nanoparticles (NPs), for example, are being extensively tested as scaffolds to deliver anti-cancer therapeutics or imaging tags. Our recent work, discussed herein, indicates that an opportunity exists to use NPs to deliver ligands for, and trigger, cognate receptors on T lymphocytes as a way to induce therapeutic immune responses in vivo. Specifically, systemic delivery of NPs coated with Type 1 diabetes (T1D)-relevant peptide-major histocompatibility complex molecules triggered the expansion of cognate memory autoregulatory (disease-suppressing) T cells, suppressed the progression of autoimmune attack against insulin-producing beta cells, and restored glucose homeostasis. This therapeutic avenue exploits a new paradigm in the progression of chronic autoimmune responses that enables the rational design of disease-specific "nanovaccines" capable of blunting autoimmunity without impairing systemic immunity, a long sought-after goal in the therapy of these disorders. Here, we discuss the research paths that led to the discovery of this therapeutic avenue and highlight the features that make it an attractive approach for the treatment, in an antigen-specific manner, of a whole host of autoimmune diseases.

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AnimalsAutoimmune DiseasesAutoimmunityHumansMajor Histocompatibility ComplexNanoparticlesPeptidesVaccinesPeptidesVaccines

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PMID21499734
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