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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
12
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-11-29
pubmed:abstractText
Given the mucosal transmission of HIV-1, we compared whether a mucosal vaccine could induce mucosal cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) and protect rhesus macaques against mucosal infection with simian/human immunodeficiency virus (SHIV) more effectively than the same vaccine given subcutaneously. Here we show that mucosal CTLs specific for simian immunodeficiency virus can be induced by intrarectal immunization of macaques with a synthetic-peptide vaccine incorporating the LT(R192G) adjuvant. This response correlated with the level of T-helper response. After intrarectal challenge with pathogenic SHIV-Ku2, viral titers were eliminated more completely (to undetectable levels) both in blood and intestine, a major reservoir for virus replication, in intrarectally immunized animals than in subcutaneously immunized or control macaques. Moreover, CD4+ T cells were better preserved. Thus, induction of CTLs in the intestinal mucosa, a key site of virus replication, with a mucosal AIDS vaccine ameliorates infection by SHIV in non-human primates.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
1078-8956
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
7
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1320-6
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:11726972-AIDS Vaccines, pubmed-meshheading:11726972-Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, pubmed-meshheading:11726972-Administration, Rectal, pubmed-meshheading:11726972-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:11726972-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:11726972-Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte, pubmed-meshheading:11726972-Gene Products, gag, pubmed-meshheading:11726972-Gene Products, pol, pubmed-meshheading:11726972-Histocompatibility Antigens Class I, pubmed-meshheading:11726972-Intestinal Mucosa, pubmed-meshheading:11726972-Macaca mulatta, pubmed-meshheading:11726972-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:11726972-Rectum, pubmed-meshheading:11726972-Simian Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, pubmed-meshheading:11726972-T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic, pubmed-meshheading:11726972-T-Lymphocytes, Helper-Inducer, pubmed-meshheading:11726972-Vaccination, pubmed-meshheading:11726972-Vaccines, Synthetic, pubmed-meshheading:11726972-Viral Load
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
Mucosal AIDS vaccine reduces disease and viral load in gut reservoir and blood after mucosal infection of macaques.
pubmed:affiliation
Molecular Immunogenetics and Vaccine Research Section, Metabolism Branch, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. belyakov@box-b.nih.gov
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.