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ReviewViruses2020

Influenza Virus Like Particles (VLPs): Opportunities for H7N9 Vaccine Development.

Peter Pushko, Irina Tretyakova

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Review in Viruses, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Tailored Viral-like Particles as Drivers of Medical Breakthroughs.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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  7. Virus-like particle vaccinology, from bench to bedside.Cellular & molecular immunology · 2022
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  12. Use of Protamine in Nanopharmaceuticals-A Review.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Peter PushkoMedigen, Inc., 8420 Gas House Pike, Suite S, Frederick, MD 21701, USA.
Irina TretyakovaMedigen, Inc., 8420 Gas House Pike, Suite S, Frederick, MD 21701, USA.

Funding

Multivalent emergency vaccine against pandemic influenzaR43AI136220 · NIAID · MEDIGEN, INC. · PI PUSHKO, PETER M. · 2018 to 2019
$191k
NIAID NIH HHS R43 AI136220NIH HHS R43AI136220
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the midst of the ongoing COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, influenza virus remains a major threat to public health due to its potential to cause epidemics and pandemics with significant human mortality. Cases of H7N9 human infections emerged in eastern China in 2013 and immediately raised pandemic concerns as historically, pandemics were caused by the introduction of new subtypes into immunologically naïve human populations. Highly pathogenic H7N9 cases with severe disease were reported recently, indicating the continuing public health threat and the need for a prophylactic vaccine. Here we review the development of recombinant influenza virus-like particles (VLPs) as vaccines against H7N9 virus. Several approaches to vaccine development are reviewed including the expression of VLPs in mammalian, plant and insect cell expression systems. Although considerable progress has been achieved, including demonstration of safety and immunogenicity of H7N9 VLPs in the human clinical trials, the remaining challenges need to be addressed. These challenges include improvements to the manufacturing processes, as well as enhancements to immunogenicity in order to elicit protective immunity to multiple variants and subtypes of influenza virus.

Indexed as

AnimalsAntigens, ViralClinical Trials as TopicEpitopesHistocompatibility Antigens Class IIHumansInfluenza A Virus, H7N9 SubtypeInfluenza VaccinesVaccines, Virus-Like ParticleAntigens, ViralEpitopesHistocompatibility Antigens Class IIInfluenza VaccinesVaccines, Virus-Like Particleavian fluH7N9IAVpandemic influenza AVLP vaccine

Identifiers

PMID32397182
PMCPMC7291233

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