Vaccine adjuvants: mechanisms and platforms

T Zhao, Y Cai, Y Jiang, X He, Y Wei, Y Yu… - Signal transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
Adjuvants are indispensable components of vaccines. Despite being widely used in
vaccines, their action mechanisms are not yet clear. With a greater understanding of the …

Emerging concepts in the science of vaccine adjuvants

B Pulendran, P S. Arunachalam… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2021 - nature.com
Adjuvants are vaccine components that enhance the magnitude, breadth and durability of
the immune response. Following its introduction in the 1920s, alum remained the only …

Immunological considerations for COVID-19 vaccine strategies

M Jeyanathan, S Afkhami, F Smaill, MS Miller… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused by severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the most formidable challenge to …

Metallodrugs are unique: Opportunities and challenges of discovery and development

EJ Anthony, EM Bolitho, HE Bridgewater… - Chemical …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Metals play vital roles in nutrients and medicines and provide chemical functionalities that
are not accessible to purely organic compounds. At least 10 metals are essential for human …

Toward nanotechnology-enabled approaches against the COVID-19 pandemic

C Weiss, M Carriere, L Fusco, I Capua… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The COVID-19 outbreak has fueled a global demand for effective diagnosis and treatment
as well as mitigation of the spread of infection, all through large-scale approaches such as …

Polymersome-based protein drug delivery–quo vadis?

MG Gouveia, JP Wesseler, J Ramaekers… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Protein-based therapeutics are an attractive alternative to established therapeutic
approaches and represent one of the fastest growing families of drugs. While many of these …

Natural and synthetic carbohydrate-based vaccine adjuvants and their mechanisms of action

C Pifferi, R Fuentes, A Fernández-Tejada - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2021 - nature.com
Modern subunit vaccines based on homogeneous antigens offer more precise targeting and
improved safety compared with traditional whole-pathogen vaccines. However, they are also …

New-age vaccine adjuvants, their development, and future perspective

SK Verma, P Mahajan, NK Singh, A Gupta… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
In the present scenario, immunization is of utmost importance as it keeps us safe and
protects us from infectious agents. Despite the great success in the field of vaccinology …

A ferritin-based COVID-19 nanoparticle vaccine that elicits robust, durable, broad-spectrum neutralizing antisera in non-human primates

PAB Weidenbacher, M Sanyal, N Friedland… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
While the rapid development of COVID-19 vaccines has been a scientific triumph, the need
remains for a globally available vaccine that provides longer-lasting immunity against …

Vaccine adjuvants: Understanding the structure and mechanism of adjuvanticity

S Shi, H Zhu, X Xia, Z Liang, X Ma, B Sun - Vaccine, 2019 - Elsevier
In conjugate, inactivated, recombinant, and toxoid vaccines, adjuvants are extensively and
essentially used for enhanced and long-lasting protective immune responses. Depending …