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ArticleThe Journal of clinical investigation2023

Advances in understanding the mechanism of action of adult vaccines.

Anthony L Cunningham, Kerrie J Sandgren, Naomi R Truong

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Article in The Journal of clinical investigation, 2023. 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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0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 14% 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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Anthony L Cunningham
Kerrie J Sandgren
Naomi R Truong

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The occurrence of herpes zoster (HZ) correlates with declining memory T cells that had responded to earlier infection with varicella-zoster virus (VZV). There are especially lower T cell responses to the single immunodominant VZV protein glycoprotein E (gE) in people over 50 years of age, although antibody responses to VZV persist. Therefore, a live attenuated zoster vaccine (ZVL) aimed at restoring T cell responses was developed. Surprisingly, a recombinant zoster vaccine (RZV) consisting of gE combined with the AS01B adjuvant system proved superior in efficacy and durability. In this issue of the JCI, Laing, Ford, and colleagues showed that both vaccines stimulated preimmunization naive CD4+ T cells, not just memory CD4+ T cells, to gE, and recruited these naive responses into the overall memory response. However, compared with ZVL, RZV stimulated this response to a much greater degree. These results will help guide development of more effective and durable vaccines for older individuals.

Indexed as

Herpes ZosterHerpes Zoster VaccineAdultCD4-Positive T-LymphocytesHerpesvirus 3, HumanHumansMiddle AgedVaccines, AttenuatedVaccines, SyntheticHerpes Zoster VaccineVaccines, AttenuatedVaccines, Synthetic

Identifiers

PMID38038131
PMCPMC10688986
OpenAlexW4389166528

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