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ArticlePharmaceutics2023

A Self-Emulsified Adjuvant System Containing the Immune Potentiator Alpha Tocopherol Induces Higher Neutralizing Antibody Responses than a Squalene-Only Emulsion When Evaluated with a Recombinant Cytomegalovirus (CMV) Pentamer Antigen in Mice.

Rushit N Lodaya, Amey P Kanitkar, Asma Ashraf, Douty Bamba, Mansoor M Amiji, Derek T O'Hagan

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Article in Pharmaceutics, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Rushit N LodayaDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4107-3671
Amey P KanitkarGSK, Rockville Centre for Vaccines Research, Rockville, MD 20850, USA.
Asma AshrafGSK, Rockville Centre for Vaccines Research, Rockville, MD 20850, USA.
Douty BambaGSK, Rockville Centre for Vaccines Research, Rockville, MD 20850, USA.
Mansoor M AmijiDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Derek T O'HaganGSK, Rockville Centre for Vaccines Research, Rockville, MD 20850, USA.
GlaxoSmithKline (United States) · USNortheastern University · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The development of new vaccine adjuvants represents a key approach to improvingi the immune responses to recombinant vaccine antigens. Emulsion adjuvants, such as AS03 and MF59, in combination with influenza vaccines, have allowed antigen dose sparing, greater breadth of responses and fewer immunizations. It has been demonstrated previously that emulsion adjuvants can be prepared using a simple, low-shear process of self-emulsification (SE). The role of alpha tocopherol as an immune potentiator in emulsion adjuvants is clear from the success of AS03 in pandemic responses, both to influenza and COVID-19. Although it was a significant formulation challenge to include alpha tocopherol in an emulsion prepared by a low-shear process, the resultant self-emulsifying adjuvant system (SE-AS) showed a comparable effect to the established AS03 when used with a quadrivalent influenza vaccine (QIV). In this paper, we first optimized the SE-AS with alpha tocopherol to create SE-AS44, which allowed the emulsion to be sterile-filtered. Then, we compared the in vitro cell activation cytokine profile of SE-AS44 with the self-emulsifying adjuvant 160 (SEA160), a squalene-only adjuvant. In addition, we evaluated SE-AS44 and SEA160 competitively, in combination with a recombinant cytomegalovirus (CMV) pentamer antigen mouse.

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adjuvantsalpha-tocopherolnanoemulsionsself-emulsificationvaccine delivery

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PMID36678865
PMCPMC9867524
OpenAlexW4315648734

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