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ReviewAnnual review of pharmacology and toxicology2021

Oral Biologic Delivery: Advances Toward Oral Subunit, DNA, and mRNA Vaccines and the Potential for Mass Vaccination During Pandemics.

Jacob William Coffey, Gaurav Das Gaiha, Giovanni Traverso

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Review in Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
33citing papers in PubMed
3.4field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
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

33 citing papers in PubMed, 59 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Design of a Novel Peptide-Based Vaccine TargetingInternational journal of dentistry · 2026
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  11. Recent development of oral vaccines (Review).Experimental and therapeutic medicine · 2024
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  19. Yeast oral vaccines against infectious diseases.Frontiers in microbiology · 2023
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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

3 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Jacob William CoffeyDepartment of Chemical Engineering and David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
Gaurav Das GaihaRagon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
Giovanni TraversoDivision of Gastroenterology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
Brigham and Women's Hospital · USMassachusetts General Hospital · USMassachusetts Institute of Technology · US

Funding

CONTROLLED RELEASE OF MACROMOLECULESR01EB000244 · NIBIB · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI LANGER, ROBERT SAMUEL, TRAVERSO, CARLO GIOVANNI · 2002 to 2021
$6.1M
Controlled Release of MacromoleculesR37EB000244 · NIBIB · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI LANGER, ROBERT SAMUEL · 2008 to 2017
$3.9M
Leveraging CTLs targeting highly networked epitopes to suppress the latent HIV-1 reservoirK08AI140960 · NIAID · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI GAIHA, GAURAV DAS · 2019 to 2020
$400k
NIAID NIH HHS K08 AI140960NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB000244NIBIB NIH HHS R37 EB000244
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Oral vaccination enables pain-free and self-administrable vaccine delivery for rapid mass vaccination during pandemic outbreaks. Furthermore, it elicits systemic and mucosal immune responses. This protects against infection at mucosal surfaces, which may further enhance protection and minimize the spread of disease. The gastrointestinal (GI) tract presents a number of prospective mucosal inductive sites for vaccine targeting, including the oral cavity, stomach, and small intestine. However, currently available oral vaccines are effectively limited to live-attenuated and inactivated vaccines against enteric diseases. The GI tract poses a number of challenges,including degradative processes that digest biologics and mucosal barriers that limit their absorption. This review summarizes the approaches currently under development and future opportunities for oral vaccine delivery to established (intestinal) and relatively new (oral cavity, stomach) mucosal targets. Special consideration is given to recent advances in oral biologic delivery that offer promise as future platforms for the administration of oral vaccines.

Indexed as

Mass VaccinationVaccinesAdministration, OralDNAHumansPandemicsProspective StudiesRNA, MessengerDNARNA, MessengerVaccinesDNAmRNAmucosal immunizationoral biologic deliveryoral vaccinesprotein

Identifiers

PMID32466690
PMCPMC8057107
OpenAlexW3029986321

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