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ReviewPharmaceutical research2016

Is There an Optimal Formulation and Delivery Strategy for Subunit Vaccines?

Sharan Bobbala, Sarah Hook

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Review in Pharmaceutical research, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers.

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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

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

36 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Sharan BobbalaSchool of Pharmacy, University of Otago, Dunedin, 9054, New Zealand.
Sarah HookSchool of Pharmacy, University of Otago, Dunedin, 9054, New Zealand. sarah.hook@otago.ac.nz.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Modern vaccine design has moved away from attenuated or inactivated whole-pathogen vaccines to more pure and defined subunit vaccines. However subunit antigens have poor bioavailability and stability and lack immunogenicity. To overcome these issues subunit vaccines have to be administered in a suitable delivery system in combination with immune stimulants. Many different delivery systems have been developed and investigated each having different modes of action, for example increasing delivery and/or sustaining delivery of antigen to immune cells. In addition a number of different routes of immunization are possible and these can play a crucial role in determining the fate of an immune response. In this review the different strategies for the delivery of prophylactic and therapeutic subunit vaccines along with the impact of these on the immune responses generated are discussed.

Indexed as

AnimalsAntibody FormationAntigensChemistry, PharmaceuticalDrug Delivery SystemsHumansVaccinationVaccines, SubunitAntigensVaccines, Subunithydrogelsimmunizationimplantsnanoparticlessubunit vaccines

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