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ReviewJournal of immunology research2016

Adjuvants: Classification, Modus Operandi, and Licensing.

Juliana de Souza Apostólico, Victória Alves Santos Lunardelli, Fernanda Caroline Coirada, Silvia Beatriz Boscardin, Daniela Santoro Rosa

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Review in Journal of immunology research, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 144 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

144 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Juliana de Souza ApostólicoDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP/EPM), Rua Botucatu, 4° Andar, 04023-062 São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Victória Alves Santos LunardelliDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP/EPM), Rua Botucatu, 4° Andar, 04023-062 São Paulo, SP, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0002-5235-8288
Fernanda Caroline CoiradaDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP/EPM), Rua Botucatu, 4° Andar, 04023-062 São Paulo, SP, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0001-7512-3556
Silvia Beatriz BoscardinDepartment of Parasitology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of São Paulo, Avenida Lineu Prestes 1374, 05508-000 São Paulo, SP, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0002-7845-7110
Daniela Santoro RosaDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP/EPM), Rua Botucatu, 4° Andar, 04023-062 São Paulo, SP, Brazil; Instituto de Investigação em Imunologia (iii), 01246-903 São Paulo, SP, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0003-4536-891X

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Vaccination is one of the most efficient strategies for the prevention of infectious diseases. Although safer, subunit vaccines are poorly immunogenic and for this reason the use of adjuvants is strongly recommended. Since their discovery in the beginning of the 20th century, adjuvants have been used to improve immune responses that ultimately lead to protection against disease. The choice of the adjuvant is of utmost importance as it can stimulate protective immunity. Their mechanisms of action have now been revealed. Our increasing understanding of the immune system, and of correlates of protection, is helping in the development of new vaccine formulations for global infections. Nevertheless, few adjuvants are licensed for human vaccines and several formulations are now being evaluated in clinical trials. In this review, we briefly describe the most well known adjuvants used in experimental and clinical settings based on their main mechanisms of action and also highlight the requirements for licensing new vaccine formulations.

Indexed as

Adjuvants, ImmunologicAnimalsHistory, 20th CenturyHistory, 21st CenturyHumansImmune SystemImmunity, MucosalLicensureReceptors, ImmunologicVaccinationVaccines, SubunitAdjuvants, ImmunologicReceptors, ImmunologicVaccines, Subunit

Identifiers

PMID27274998
PMCPMC4870346

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