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Persistent serum protein signatures define an inflammatory subcategory of long COVID
Nature Communications, 2023 Long COVID or post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 (PASC) is a clinical syndrome featuring diverse symptoms that can persist for months following acute SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Aarthi Talla +19 more
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Vaccines for Lung Cancer [PDF]
Journal of Thoracic Oncology, 2006 Immunotherapy is based on the knowledge that the immune system can distinguish cancerous cells from normal cells. Conceptually, this is an attractive adjuvant approach because it is highly specific and can deal with disseminated disease with minimal impact on normal tissues.
Edward A. Hirschowitz +2 more
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T Cell Subsets in the Germinal Center: Lessons from the Macaque Model
Frontiers in Immunology, 2018 Germinal centers (GCs) are organized lymphoid tissue microstructures where B cells proliferate and differentiate into memory B cells and plasma cells. A few distinctive subsets of highly specialized T cells gain access to the GCs by expressing the B cell
Monica Vaccari, Genoveffa Franchini
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Costs of delivering human papillomavirus vaccination to schoolgirls in Mwanza Region, Tanzania. [PDF]
, 2012 BACKGROUND: Cervical cancer is the leading cause of female cancer-related deaths in Tanzania. Vaccination against human papillomavirus (HPV) offers a new opportunity to control this disease.
Quentin, Wilm +9 more
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Evaluation of Microparticulate Ovarian Cancer Vaccine via Transdermal Route of Delivery [PDF]
, 2016 Ovarian cancer is the fifth most commonly occurring malignancy in women, with the highest mortality rate among all the gynecological tumors. Microparticulate vaccine can serve as an immunotherapeutic approach with a promising antigenic delivery system ...
Akalkotkar, Archana +3 more
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Q fever outbreak in the terraced vineyards of Lavaux, Switzerland
New Microbes and New Infections, EarlyView., 2014 Abstract Coxiella burnetii infection (Q fever) is a widespread zoonosis with low endemicity in Switzerland, therefore no mandatory public report was required. A cluster of initially ten human cases of acute Q fever infections characterized by prolonged fever, asthenia and mild hepatitis occurred in 2012 in the terraced vineyard of Lavaux ...
C. Bellini +9 more
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Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice, 2011 The term cancer vaccines encompasses 2 different types of vaccines. Prophylactic vaccines block infection by viruses that can alter host DNA and result in cancer. The hepatitis B vaccine and the human papillomavirus vaccines are examples of prophylactic vaccines that can prevent cancer from developing.
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Communications Biology, 2021 Sopp et al describe an approach, which exploits the tailpiece of the naturally multimeric IgM to augment hexamerisation of IgG. Their approach provides a newly engineered format of antibodies for promoting hexamerisation and enhanced complement-dependent
Joshua M. Sopp +10 more
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Therapeutic cancer vaccines [PDF]
Journal of Clinical Investigation, 2015 The clinical benefit of therapeutic cancer vaccines has been established. Whereas regression of lesions was shown for premalignant lesions caused by HPV, clinical benefit in cancer patients was mostly noted as prolonged survival. Suboptimal vaccine design and an immunosuppressive cancer microenvironment are the root causes of the lack of cancer ...
Melief, C.J.M. +4 more
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Bioengineering & Translational Medicine, 2023 AbstractVaccines are an important tool in the rapidly evolving repertoire of immunotherapies in oncology. Although cancer vaccines have been investigated for over 30 years, very few have achieved meaningful clinical success. However, recent advances in areas such antigen identification, formulation development and manufacturing, combination therapy ...
Morgan E. Janes +4 more
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