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ReviewVaccine2012

A push-pull vaccine strategy using Toll-like receptor ligands, IL-15, and blockade of negative regulation to improve the quality and quantity of T cell immune responses.

Jay A Berzofsky

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Review in Vaccine, 2012. 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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9citing papers in PubMed
1.0field-weighted citation impact, top 25% 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

9 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. EpiMix Based Novel Vaccine Candidate forInternational journal of peptide research and therapeutics · 2021
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  3. Genital warts treatment: Beyond imiquimod.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2018
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jay A BerzofskyVaccine Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Building 10, Room 6B-04 (MSC#1578) NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892-1578, USA. berzofsk@helix.nih.gov
National Cancer Institute · US

Funding

Vaccine and immunotherapy strategies for cancer and viruses causing cancerZIASC004020 · NCI · DIVISION OF CLINICAL SCIENCES - NCI · PI BERZOFSKY, JAY A · 2009 to 2025
$51.8M
Intramural NIH HHS ZIA SC004020
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We have developed a strategy to optimize the efficacy of vaccines to induce T-cell immunity against chronic viral infections and cancer based on a "push-pull" approach in which we first optimize the antigen structure by increasing the affinity of epitopes for major histocompatibility complex molecules ("epitope enhancement"), then push the response not only in magnitude but also in quality toward the desired response phenotype, using synergistic combinations of cytokines, Toll-like receptor ligands, and costimulatory molecules, and then pull the response by removing the brakes exerted by negative regulatory mechanisms, including regulatory cells, cell surface molecules, and cytokines. Components of this approach show promise in macaque models of AIDS virus infection and in murine models of cancer, and are being developed for human clinical trials.

Indexed as

Immunity, CellularAnimalsCancer VaccinesCD8-Positive T-LymphocytesEpitopesInterleukin-15LigandsToll-Like ReceptorsViral VaccinesCancer VaccinesEpitopesInterleukin-15LigandsToll-Like ReceptorsViral Vaccines

Identifiers

PMID22115635
PMCPMC3319860
OpenAlexW2062009379

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