Search Results - "Valiante, Nicholas M."
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Nonviral delivery of self-amplifying RNA vaccines
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (04-09-2012)“…Despite more than two decades of research and development on nucleic acid vaccines, there is still no commercial product for human use. Taking advantage of the…”
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A Cationic Nanoemulsion for the Delivery of Next-generation RNA Vaccines
Published in Molecular therapy (01-12-2014)“…Nucleic acid-based vaccines such as viral vectors, plasmid DNA, and mRNA are being developed as a means to address a number of unmet medical needs that current…”
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Rational design of small molecules as vaccine adjuvants
Published in Science translational medicine (19-11-2014)“…Adjuvants increase vaccine potency largely by activating innate immunity and promoting inflammation. Limiting the side effects of this inflammation is a major…”
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NKp46 and NKG2D Recognition of Infected Dendritic Cells Is Necessary for NK Cell Activation in the Human Response to Influenza Infection
Published in Journal of Immunology (01-03-2007)“…At an early phase of viral infection, contact and cooperation between dendritic cells (DCs) and NK cells activates innate immunity, and also influences…”
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Contact-dependent stimulation and inhibition of dendritic cells by natural killer cells
Published in The Journal of experimental medicine (04-02-2002)“…Natural killer (NK) cells and dendritic cells (DCs) are two distinct cell types of innate immunity. It is known that the in vitro interaction of human NK cells…”
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Hepatitis C virions subvert natural killer cell activation to generate a cytokine environment permissive for infection
Published in Journal of hepatology (01-02-2010)“…Background & Aims Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is remarkably successful in establishing persistent infections due to its ability to evade host immune responses…”
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Innate transcriptional effects by adjuvants on the magnitude, quality, and durability of HIV envelope responses in NHPs
Published in Blood advances (28-11-2017)“…Adjuvants have a critical role for improving vaccine efficacy against many pathogens, including HIV. Here, using transcriptional RNA profiling and systems…”
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Inhibition of natural killer cells through engagement of CD81 by the major hepatitis C virus envelope protein
Published in The Journal of experimental medicine (07-01-2002)“…The immune response against hepatitis C virus (HCV) is rarely effective at clearing the virus, resulting in approximately 170 million chronic HCV infections…”
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Human diversity in killer cell inhibitory receptor genes
Published in Immunity (Cambridge, Mass.) (01-12-1997)“…The presence and expression of killer inhibitory receptor (KIR) and CD94:NKG2 genes from 68 donors were analyzed using molecular typing techniques. The genes…”
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Small molecule Toll-like receptor 7 agonists localize to the MHC class II loading compartment of human plasmacytoid dendritic cells
Published in Blood (26-05-2011)“…TLR7 and TLR8 are intracellular sensors activated by single-stranded RNA species generated during viral infections. Various synthetic small molecules can also…”
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New adjuvants for human vaccines
Published in Current opinion in immunology (01-06-2010)“…Despite their obvious benefits, decades of research and hundreds of pre-clinical candidates, only a handful of adjuvants are approved for prophylactic…”
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Functionally and structurally distinct NK cell receptor repertoires in the peripheral blood of two human donors
Published in Immunity (Cambridge, Mass.) (01-12-1997)“…The expression of KIR and CD94:NKG2 receptors was determined for more than 100 natural killer (NK) cell clones obtained from two blood donors who differ in…”
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mTOR inhibition improves immune function in the elderly
Published in Science translational medicine (24-12-2014)“…Inhibition of the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway extends life span in all species studied to date, and in mice delays the onset of age-related…”
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A new TLR2 agonist promotes cross-presentation by mouse and human antigen presenting cells
Published in Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics (03-08-2015)“…Cross-presentation is the process by which professional APCs load peptides from an extracellularly derived protein onto class I MHC molecules to trigger a CD8…”
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Single-cell analysis of the human NK cell response to missing self and its inhibition by HLA class I
Published in Blood (01-03-2005)“…Natural killer (NK) cells activate quickly in response to pathogens, tumors, and allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplants. Modulating the NK cell response are…”
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Vaccine composition formulated with a novel TLR7-dependent adjuvant induces high and broad protection against Staphylococcus aureus
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (24-03-2015)“…Significance Staphylococcus aureus is a human pathogen causing life-threatening infections. The high incidence of methicillin-resistant S. aureus isolates…”
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Targeting the innate immune response with improved vaccine adjuvants
Published in Nature medicine (01-04-2005)“…Despite two centuries of vaccine use, only a few adjuvants and delivery systems are licensed for human use. This is partly because traditional vaccines based…”
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Recent advances in the discovery and delivery of vaccine adjuvants
Published in Nature reviews. Drug discovery (01-09-2003)“…Adjuvant design has historically had a touch of alchemy at its heart due to its reliance on the complex biology of innate immune activation. However, a new…”
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Novel adjuvant Alum-TLR7 significantly potentiates immune response to glycoconjugate vaccines
Published in Scientific reports (21-07-2016)“…Although glycoconjugate vaccines are generally very efficacious, there is still a need to improve their efficacy, especially in eliciting a strong primary…”
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Incorporation of Phosphonate into Benzonaphthyridine Toll-like Receptor 7 Agonists for Adsorption to Aluminum Hydroxide
Published in Journal of medicinal chemistry (23-06-2016)“…Small molecule Toll-like receptor 7 (TLR7) agonists have been used as vaccine adjuvants by enhancing innate immune activation to afford better adaptive…”
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