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ReviewPharmaceutical research2018

Mycobacterium Tuberculosis and Interactions with the Host Immune System: Opportunities for Nanoparticle Based Immunotherapeutics and Vaccines.

Raymonde B Bekale, Su-Mari Du Plessis, Nai-Jen Hsu, Jyoti R Sharma, Samantha L Sampson, Muazzam Jacobs, Mervin Meyer, Gene D Morse, Admire Dube

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Review in Pharmaceutical research, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
18citing papers in PubMed
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 16% of its field
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

18 citing papers in PubMed, 32 citations in OpenAlex.

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  16. The Macrophage Response toFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2020
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  17. Nanomedicines for Infectious Diseases.Pharmaceutical research · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 6 institutions in 2 countries.

Raymonde B BekaleDiscipline of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmacy, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa.
Su-Mari Du PlessisNRF-DST Centre of Excellence for Biomedical Tuberculosis Research, South African Medical Research Council Centre for Tuberculosis Research, Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa.
Nai-Jen HsuDivision of Immunology, Department of Pathology, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Jyoti R SharmaNational Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Samantha L SampsonNRF-DST Centre of Excellence for Biomedical Tuberculosis Research, South African Medical Research Council Centre for Tuberculosis Research, Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa.
Muazzam JacobsDivision of Immunology, Department of Pathology, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Mervin MeyerDST/Mintek Nanotechnology Innovation Centre (NIC), Biolabels Unit, Department of Biotechnology, University of the Western Cape (UWC), Cape Town, South Africa.
Gene D MorseAIDS Clinical Trials Group Pharmacology Specialty Laboratory, New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, USA.
Admire DubeDiscipline of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmacy, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa. adube@uwc.ac.za.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5684-6094
National Health Laboratory Service · ZASouth African Medical Research Council · ZAUniversity of the Western Cape · ZAAIDS Clinical Trials Group · USMintek · ZAUniversity of Cape Town · ZA

Funding

Development of Nanomedicines for Tuberculosis TreatmentK43TW010371 · FIC · UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE · PI DUBE, ADMIRE · 2017 to 2021
$370k
FIC NIH HHS K43 TW010371
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tuberculosis (TB) caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis remains a deadly infectious disease. The thin pipeline of new drugs for TB, the ineffectiveness in adults of the only vaccine available, i.e. the Bacillus Calmette-Guerin vaccine, and increasing global antimicrobial resistance, has reinvigorated interest in immunotherapies. Nanoparticles (NPs) potentiate the effect of immune modulating compounds (IMC), enabling cell targeting, improved transfection of antigens, enhanced compound stability and provide opportunities for synergistic action, via delivery of multiple IMCs. In this review we describe work performed in the application of NPs towards achieving immune modulation for TB treatment and vaccination. Firstly, we present a comprehensive review of M. tuberculosis and how the bacterium modulates the host immune system. We find that current work suggest great promise of NP based immunotherapeutics as novel treatments and vaccination systems. There is need to intensify research efforts in this field, and rationally design novel NP immunotherapeutics based on current knowledge of the mycobacteriology and immune escape mechanisms employed by M. tuberculosis.

Indexed as

Immune SystemMycobacterium tuberculosisAnimalsHost-Pathogen InteractionsHumansImmunotherapyNanoparticlesTuberculosisVaccinationimmunotherapeutic nanoparticlesimmunotherapy for tuberculosisMycobacterium tuberculosisnanoparticle based host directed therapynanoparticles and vaccination

Identifiers

PMID30411187
PMCPMC6362825
OpenAlexW2899857931

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