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ArticleFrontiers in immunology2021

Polyvalent Bacterial Lysate Protects Against Pneumonia Independently of Neutrophils, IL-17A or Caspase-1 Activation.

Florencia Ferrara, Analía Rial, Norma Suárez, José Alejandro Chabalgoity

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Article in Frontiers in immunology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Florencia FerraraLaboratory for Vaccine Research, Departamento de Desarrollo Biotecnológico, Facultad de Medicina, Instituto de Higiene, Montevideo, Uruguay.
Analía RialLaboratory for Vaccine Research, Departamento de Desarrollo Biotecnológico, Facultad de Medicina, Instituto de Higiene, Montevideo, Uruguay.
Norma SuárezLaboratory for Vaccine Research, Departamento de Desarrollo Biotecnológico, Facultad de Medicina, Instituto de Higiene, Montevideo, Uruguay.
José Alejandro ChabalgoityLaboratory for Vaccine Research, Departamento de Desarrollo Biotecnológico, Facultad de Medicina, Instituto de Higiene, Montevideo, Uruguay.
Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas Clemente Estable · UY

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Polyvalent bacterial lysates have been in use for decades for prevention and treatment of respiratory infections with reported clinical benefits. However, besides claims of broad immune activation, the mode of action is still a matter of debate. The lysates, formulated with the main bacterial species involved in respiratory infections, are commonly prepared by chemical or mechanical disruption of bacterial cells, what is believed influences the biological activity of the product. Here, we prepared two polyvalent lysates with the same composition but different method of bacterial cell disruption and evaluated their biological activity in a comparative fashion. We found that both bacterial lysates induce NF-kB activation in a MyD88 dependent manner, suggesting they work as TLR agonists. Further, we found that a single intranasal dose of any of the two lysates, is sufficient to protect against pneumococcal pneumonia, suggesting that they exert similar biological activity. We have previously shown that protection against pneumococcal pneumonia can also be induced by prior

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A549 CellsAnimalsBacteriaBiological FactorsCaspase 1Enzyme ActivationHumansInterleukin-17MiceNeutrophilsPneumonia, PneumococcalProtective AgentsStreptococcus pneumoniaeSurvival AnalysisTHP-1 CellsBiological FactorsCaspase 1Interleukin-17Protective AgentsIL-17Ainflammasomelungspneumoniapolyvalent bacterial lysaterespiratory tract infectionsTLR stimulation

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PMID33981296
PMCPMC8108696
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