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ReviewExpert review of vaccines2012

Pushing the frontiers of T-cell vaccines: accurate measurement of human T-cell responses.

Fadi Saade, Stacey Ann Gorski, Nikolai Petrovsky

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Review in Expert review of vaccines, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Fadi SaadeVaxine Pty Ltd, Bedford Park, Adelaide 5042, Australia.
Stacey Ann Gorski
Nikolai Petrovsky

Funding

Novel vaccine adjuvants to counter bioterrorist threatsU01AI061142 · NIAID · FLINDERS UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA · PI PETROVSKY, NIKOLAI · 2005 to 2009
$3.5M
NIAID NIH HHS HHSN272200800039CNIAID NIH HHS U01 AI061142
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There is a need for novel approaches to tackle major vaccine challenges such as malaria, tuberculosis and HIV, among others. Success will require vaccines able to induce a cytotoxic T-cell response--a deficiency of most current vaccine approaches. The successful development of T-cell vaccines faces many hurdles, not least being the lack of consensus on a standardized T-cell assay format able to be used as a correlate of vaccine efficacy. Hence, there remains a need for reproducible measures of T-cell immunity proven in human clinical trials to correlate with vaccine protection. The T-cell equivalent of a neutralizing antibody assay would greatly accelerate the development and commercialization of T-cell vaccines. Recent advances have seen a plethora of new T-cell assays become available, including some like cytometry by time-of-flight with extreme multiparameter T-cell phenotyping capability. However, whether it is historic thymidine-based proliferation assays or sophisticated new cytometry assays, each assay has its relative advantages and disadvantages, and relatively few of these assays have yet to be validated in large-scale human vaccine trials. This review examines the current range of T-cell assays and assesses their suitability for use in human vaccine trials. Should one or more of these assays be accepted as an agreed surrogate of T-cell protection by a regulatory agency, this would significantly accelerate the development of T-cell vaccines.

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Immunity, CellularCell ProliferationClinical Trials as TopicCytokinesEnzyme-Linked Immunospot AssayFlow CytometryHumansImmunoassayImmunologic MemoryImmunophenotypingLeukocytes, MononuclearReproducibility of ResultsT-LymphocytesVaccinesCytokinesVaccines

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PMID23252389
PMCPMC3581609

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