摘要:
Embodiments of the present invention relate to the discovery of several formulations of a transdermal delivery composition that delivers low and high molecular weight compounds, preferably hepatitis C virus (HCV) antigens and immunogens to a subject. Aspects of the invention include said transdermal delivery compositions, transdermal delivery devices for providing said compositions to subjects in need thereof and methods of making and using the foregoing.
摘要:
The invention relates to a method for preventing or treating Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) infections, wherein a HCV vaccine comprising an effective amount of at least one HCV T-cell antigen and a polycationic compound comprising peptide bonds is administered to a human individual bi-weekly at least 3 times.
摘要:
The present invention teaches a convenient way of inducing a broad recognition of dominant and subdominant responses to epitopes of any given antigen of importance for prophylaxis or treatment of a chronic disease by immunizing with pools of overlapping fragments (synthetic peptides e.g. 10-30 mers with 2-20 aa overlap) of the desired antigen in appropriate adjuvants. The T cell repertoire is primed to include not only the immunodominant epitope recognized when the intact molecule is used for immunization and induced by the chronic infection itself, but induce a much broader and balanced response to a number of the subdominant epitopes as well. The resulting T-cell response to subdominant epitopes is important for protection against chronic diseases that on their own induces a response focused only towards immunodominant epitopes. The major advantage of the present invention is that it requires no prior knowledge of the precise localisation and identity of the subdominant epitopes and their recognition in a human population, but expands the T-cell repertoire and thereby the total number of epitopes recognized by specific T cells primed by vaccination from a few immunodominant epitopes to multiple of epitopes of vaccine relevance. For chronic disease controlled by humoral immunity the T helper cell response primed by the peptide mix may conveniently be boosted by the full size protein for maximum induction of an antibody response as well.
摘要:
This invention concerns a pharmaceutical formulation and method for treating autoimmune disorders. The formulation and method provide for a combination therapy regimen wherein two separate substances are administered to a patient having or predisposed to having the disorder. The two components comprise at least one immunomodulatory peptide and a chloroquine derivative. The combination of the two components can be administered together or separately.
摘要:
The present invention provides viral adjuvants for enhancing an immune response to an immunogen. In particular embodiments, the viral adjuvant is an alphavirus adjuvant or a Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis viral adjuvant. Also provided are compositions comprising the viral adjuvant and an immunogen, and pharmaceutical formulations comprising the viral adjuvant or compositions of the invention in a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. Further provided are methods of producing an immune response against an immunogen in a subject comprising administering the immunogen and a viral adjuvant of the invention to the subject.
摘要:
A novel method of treating and preventing cancer diseases is provided. In particular, the present invention relates to compositions and methods for inhibition of cancer and the diseases associated with such cancers. More particularly, the present invention relates to the inhibitory compounds comprising naturally occurring and man-made compositions comprising a substance exhibiting Tubercin and/or SSM activity and/or Z-IOO or a functional derivative thereof.
摘要:
Polyphosphazene polymers having immunomodulating activity, and the biomedical use of such polyphosphazene polymers, in conjunction with an antigen or an immunogen are disclosed.
摘要:
This invention relates to a vaccine and a method for immune activation which is effective for eliciting both a systemic, non-antigen specific immune response and a strong antigen-specific immune response in a mammal. The method is particularly effective for protecting a mammal from a disease including cancer, a disease associated with allergic inflammation, an infectious disease, or a condition associated with a deleterious activity of a self-antigen. Also disclosed are therapeutic compositions useful in such a method.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a method for prevention of the transmission of a pathogen of an animal of a first species to an animal of a second species characterized in that antigen of the pathogen of the animal of the first species is used for the immunization of the animal of the second species against the pathogen of the animal of the first species, wherein the administration of said antigen results in the reduction or the absence of the reproduction of pathogen of the animal of the first species in the animal of the second species.
摘要:
Influenza vaccines containing insoluble particulate adjuvants have been found to elicit an IgG response that is primarily a TH2 response (IgGl). This response can be shifted towards a THl response (IgG2a) by including immunopotentiators in the compositions. Thus the invention provides an immunogenic composition comprising: (i) an influenza virus antigen; (ii) an insoluble particulate adjuvant; and (iii) a immunopotentiator.