Importance of the pig as a human biomedical model

JK Lunney, A Van Goor, KE Walker… - Science translational …, 2021 - science.org
Pigs have substantial potential as biomedical models for studying human developmental
processes, congenital diseases, and pathogen response mechanisms in addition to utility as …

Mucosal vaccines—fortifying the frontiers

EC Lavelle, RW Ward - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2022 - nature.com
Mucosal vaccines offer the potential to trigger robust protective immune responses at the
predominant sites of pathogen infection. In principle, the induction of adaptive immunity at …

Adenoviral vector vaccine platforms in the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic

SA Mendonça, R Lorincz, P Boucher, DT Curiel - npj Vaccines, 2021 - nature.com
Adenoviral vectors have been explored as vaccine agents for a range of infectious diseases,
and their ability to induce a potent and balanced immune response made them logical …

Safety, tolerability, and immunogenicity of an aerosolised adenovirus type-5 vector-based COVID-19 vaccine (Ad5-nCoV) in adults: preliminary report of an open-label …

S Wu, J Huang, Z Zhang, J Wu, J Zhang… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background SARS-CoV-2 has caused millions of deaths, and, since Aug 11, 2020, 20
intramuscular COVID-19 vaccines have been approved for use. We aimed to evaluate the …

The use of viral vectors in vaccine development

T Travieso, J Li, S Mahesh, JDFRE Mello, M Blasi - npj Vaccines, 2022 - nature.com
Vaccines represent the single most cost-efficient and equitable way to combat and eradicate
infectious diseases. While traditional licensed vaccines consist of either …

Tolerability and immunogenicity of an intranasally-administered adenovirus-vectored COVID-19 vaccine: An open-label partially-randomised ascending dose phase I …

M Madhavan, AJ Ritchie, J Aboagye, D Jenkin… - …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background Intranasal vaccination may induce protective local and systemic immune
responses against respiratory pathogens. A number of intranasal SARS-CoV-2 vaccine …

Adenovirus type 5 SARS-CoV-2 vaccines delivered orally or intranasally reduced disease severity and transmission in a hamster model

SN Langel, S Johnson, CI Martinez… - Science Translational …, 2022 - science.org
Transmission-blocking strategies that slow the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and protect against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are …

[HTML][HTML] The long road toward COVID-19 herd immunity: vaccine platform technologies and mass immunization strategies

LSF Frederiksen, Y Zhang, C Foged… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
There is an urgent need for effective countermeasures against the current emergence and
accelerating expansion of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute …

A single dose of an adenovirus-vectored vaccine provides protection against SARS-CoV-2 challenge

S Wu, G Zhong, J Zhang, L Shuai, Z Zhang… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The unprecedented coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic has created a
worldwide public health emergency, and there is an urgent need to develop an effective …

Modeling human adaptive immune responses with tonsil organoids

LE Wagar, A Salahudeen, CM Constantz, BS Wendel… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Most of what we know about adaptive immunity has come from inbred mouse studies, using
methods that are often difficult or impossible to confirm in humans. In addition, vaccine …