ArticleFrontiers in biology2012
Boosting the Immune Response: The Use of iNKT cell ligands as vaccine adjuvants.
Article in Frontiers in biology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Liposomal Co-Delivery of Antigenic Glycan LDNF and α-GalCer Elicits Potent IgG Responses with Potential for Anti-Helminth Immunity.International journal of nanomedicine · 2026Article
- CD1d-Restricted NKT Cells Promote Central Memory CD8International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- Optimizing iNKT-driven immune responses against cancer by modulating CD1d in tumor and antigen presenting cells.Clinical immunology (Orlando, Fla.) · 2024Review
- Advances in Infectious Disease Vaccine Adjuvants.Vaccines · 2022Review
- Harnessing Invariant NKT Cells to Improve Influenza Vaccines: A Pig Perspective.International journal of molecular sciences · 2017Review
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- Effects of Invariant NKT Cells on Parasite Infections and Hygiene Hypothesis.Journal of immunology research · 2016Review
- Connecting the dots: artificial antigen presenting cell-mediated modulation of natural killer T cells.Journal of interferon & cytokine research : the official journal of the International Society for Interferon and Cytokine Research · 2012Review
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Abstract
Natural killer T (NKT) cells comprise a small, but important T cell subset and are thought to bridge the innate and adaptive immune responses. The discovery of NKT cells and extensive research on their activating ligands have paved the way for modulation of these potent immunoregulatory cells in order to improve the outcome of various clinical conditions. Efforts to modulate NKT cell effector functions have ranged from therapy for influenza to anti-tumor immunotherapy. These approaches have also led to the use of NKT cell agonists such as α-Galactosylceramide (α-GalCer) and its analogs as vaccine adjuvants, an approach that is aimed at boosting specific B and T cell responses to a vaccine candidate by concomitant activation of NKT cells. In this review we will provide a comprehensive overview of the efforts made in using α-GalCer and its analogs as vaccine adjuvants. The diverse array of vaccination strategies used, as well as the role of NKT cell activating adjuvants will be discussed, with focus on vaccines against malaria, HIV, influenza and tumor vaccines. Collectively, these studies demonstrate the efficacy of NKT cell-specific agonists as adjuvants and further suggest that these compounds warrant serious consideration during the development of vaccination strategies.
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