Progress towards Adjuvant Development : Focus on Antiviral Therapy

In recent decades, vaccines have been extraordinary resources to prevent pathogen diffusion and cancer. Even if they can be formed by a single antigen, the addition of one or more adjuvants represents the key to enhance the response of the immune signal to the antigen, thus accelerating and increasing the duration and the potency of the protective effect. Their use is of particular importance for vulnerable populations, such as the elderly or immunocompromised people. Despite their importance, only in the last forty years has the search for novel adjuvants increased, with the discovery of novel classes of immune potentiators and immunomodulators. Due to the complexity of the cascades involved in immune signal activation, their mechanism of action remains poorly understood, even if significant discovery has been recently made thanks to recombinant technology and metabolomics. This review focuses on the classes of adjuvants under research, recent mechanism of action studies, as well as nanodelivery systems and novel classes of adjuvants that can be chemically manipulated to create novel small molecule adjuvants.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:24

Enthalten in:

International journal of molecular sciences - 24(2023), 11 vom: 25. Mai

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Brai, Annalaura [VerfasserIn]
Poggialini, Federica [VerfasserIn]
Pasqualini, Claudia [VerfasserIn]
Trivisani, Claudia Immacolata [VerfasserIn]
Vagaggini, Chiara [VerfasserIn]
Dreassi, Elena [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Adjuvants, Immunologic
Adjuvants, Pharmaceutic
Antiviral Agents
Formulations
Immune modulators
Immune potentiators
Immunologic Factors
Journal Article
Review
Small molecules
Vaccines

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 12.06.2023

Date Revised 03.11.2023

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/ijms24119225

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM357999371