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ArticleF1000 biology reports2012

Can we vaccinate against Type 1 diabetes?

Mark Peakman

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Article in F1000 biology reports, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Mark PeakmanDepartment of Immunobiology, King's College London and National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre at Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and King's College London 2nd Floor, Borough Wing, Guy's Hospital, London, SE1 9RT UK.
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/J006742/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Vaccination is the administration of antigenic material to stimulate the immune system to develop adaptive immunity to a disease. As the most successful prophylactic in medical history, there is now an emerging interest as to whether vaccination can be applied in autoimmune and inflammatory conditions. These are diseases of failed immune regulation; vaccination in this context aims to exploit the power of antigenic material to stimulate immune homeostasis in the form of active, adaptive, regulatory immune responses. Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease that could benefit from the therapeutic potential of vaccination. The major conditions necessary to make prophylaxis feasible are in place; the self antigens are known, the failure of existing immune regulation has been demonstrated, early studies of vaccine approaches have proved safe, and the preclinical prodrome of the disease can be easily detected by simple blood tests. Challenges for future implementation include finding the best mode of delivery and the best blend of adjunctive therapies that create the favorable conditions required for a vaccine to be effective.

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PMID23112807
PMCPMC3463895
OpenAlexW2137778663

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