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Hayk Davtyan1, Anahit Ghochikyan1, Armine Hovakimyan1, Irina Petrushina2, Jianmei Yu3, David Flyer3, Peter Juul Madsen4, Lars Ostergaard Pedersen4, David H Cribbs5, Michael G Agadjanyan6.
Abstract
Immunotherapeutic approaches to treating Alzheimer's disease (AD) using vaccination strategies must overcome the obstacle of achieving adequate responses to vaccination in the elderly. Here we demonstrate for the first time that application of the Escherichia coli heat-labile enterotoxin adjuvant-laden immunostimulatory patches (LT-IS) dramatically enhances the onset and magnitude of immune responses to DNA- and protein-based vaccines for Alzheimer's disease following intradermal immunization via gene gun and conventional needles, respectively. Our studies suggest that the immune activation mediated by LT-IS offers improved potency for generating AD-specific vaccination responses that should be investigated as an adjuvant in the clinical arena.Entities:
Keywords: Alzheimer's disease; Epitope vaccine; Immune responses; Immunostimulatory patch
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Year: 2014 PMID: 24507620 PMCID: PMC3951952 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroim.2014.01.002
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Neuroimmunol ISSN: 0165-5728 Impact factor: 3.478