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ArticleBMC complementary and alternative medicine2016

Investigation of the Immunomodulatory effect of Berberis vulgaris on core-pulsed dendritic cell vaccine.

Doaa A Ghareeb, Eiman H Elwakeel, Rowaida Khalil, Mina S Aziz, Maha A El Demellawy

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Article in BMC complementary and alternative medicine, 2016. 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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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Doaa A GhareebBiochemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt.
Eiman H ElwakeelCenter for Aging and Associated Diseases, Helmy Institute for Medical Sciences, Zewail City, Egypt.
Rowaida KhalilBotany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt.
Mina S AzizBiochemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt. minasaad@windowslive.com.
Maha A El DemellawyBiomedical Technology, GEBRI, SRTA-city, Alexandria, Egypt.
Alexandria University · EG

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundVirus-induced dendritic cells (DCs) functional deficiency leads to sub-optimal initiation of adaptive immune responses and consequently chronic infection establishment. The present study reports an advanced hepatitis C virus (HCV) therapeutic vaccine model based on In vivo enrichment of DCs with barberry ethanolic crude extract (BCE) then pulsing them with HCV core protein.

methodsDCs were enriched by BCE intravenous injection in BALB/c mice. Vaccine efficiency was assessed by flow cytometric analysis of splenocytes of immunized mice, cytokine profiling, cytotoxic T lymphocyte assay, and humoral immune response assessment.

resultsThere was no significant difference in surface phenotypic characterization of splenocytes from mice immunized with non-BCE-enriched-core-pulsed DCs (iDcs-core) compared to those from mice injected with RPMI-1640 medium. However, splenocytes from mice immunized with BCE-enriched-core-pulsed DCs showed 197 % increase in CD16+ population, 33 % increase in MHCII(+) population, and 43 % decrease in CD3(+) population. In iDCs-core group, 57.9 % greater anti-core cytotoxic T lymphocyte activity, up-regulation in interferon gamma and interleukin (IL) -12 expression, and down-regulation in IL-4 and IL-10 were recorded. Moreover, sustained specific anti-core antibodies were detected only in sera of the same group.

conclusionsresults indicate that BCE-enriched-core-transduced DCs may serve as a new model for immunotherapy of HCV chronic infection.

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AnimalsAntibodies, ViralBerberisCytokinesDendritic CellsFemaleImmunity, HumoralImmunoglobulin GImmunologic FactorsMiceMice, Inbred BALB CPlant ExtractsViral Hepatitis VaccinesAntibodies, ViralCytokinesImmunoglobulin GImmunologic FactorsPlant ExtractsViral Hepatitis VaccinesBerberis vulgarisIL 12IL 4INF-γTh-1

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