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12450708

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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:dateCreated
2002-11-26
pubmed:abstractText
A phase I/II clinical trial was carried out to determine the safety of Flt3 ligand used as a vaccine adjuvant when administered to healthy human volunteers on two different schedules. In the first phase of this study, Flt3 ligand was administered SQ at a dose of 20 microg/kg (to a maximum of 1500 microg) every day (N=10) or every other day (N=10) for 1 week. The Flt3 ligand injection series was followed 1 day later by the first of three vaccinations with the licensed hepatitis B vaccine. In the second phase of the trial, 30 volunteers received either Flt3 ligand or placebo on the alternate day schedule in a randomized, double-blind design. The Flt3 ligand injections were safe and very well-tolerated. The number of lineage negative, HLA-DR(hi), CD11c(+), CD123(-) dendritic cells (DCs) increased 23-fold, and the lineage negative, HLA-DR(hi), CD11c(-), CD(123 bright) pre-DCs increased 6-fold. There was an associated increase in monocytes and WBCs in the Flt3 ligand recipients. Despite the marked increase in peripheral circulating dendritic cells, no increase was observed in the hepatitis B antibody titers induced after vaccination.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:author
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
322-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:articleTitle
The use of Flt3 ligand as an adjuvant for hepatitis B vaccination of healthy adults.
pubmed:affiliation
Division of Infectious Diseases, University of California, Davis, PSSB, Suite 500, 4150 V St, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA. tgevans@ucdavis.edu