When antibody titers were measured from immunized animals together with IL-2, IL-4 and IFNγ production from splenocytes in vitro, we found that proteins displayed on λ were superior at eliciting an immune response in comparison to genetic immunization with λ.
Using 51Cr-release cytolytic assay (Figure 2C+D), we found that in the animals immunized with Vif101 together with PADRE two out of five significantly lysed Vif101-loaded target cells (Figure 2C), whereas one out of five mice immunized with Vif101 alone lysed Vif101-loaded target cells (Figure 1D).
Recently, it has been shown that the increased tumor incidence with aging was associated with decreased cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) activity in mice immunized with DCOVA together with an increase of NK1.1+CD3+NKT cells suppressing the proliferation of T cells (Shi et al 2005).
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2.5 kg weight New Zealand rabbits were immunized with 1 mg of recombinant β-1,3-1,4-glucanase β-1,3-1,4-glucanase β-1,3-1,4-glucanase β-1,3-1,4-glucanasellowed by a second immunizatogetherh 0.5 mg of recombinant protein and 0.5 ml of Incomplete Freund's Adjuvant (IFA) after 15 days.
For long-term memory experiments, groups of 10 female BALB/c mice were immunized with 50 µg Her2MPtVLPs alone, or together with 50 µg CpG, 10 or 6 weeks before challenge.
Taken together, these data indicate that macaques immunized with a Δudg vaccine vector mounted significantly, albeit modestly, higher frequenicies of transgene-specific CD8 and CD4 T cell responses at various times following both primary and booster immunizations, as compared to those animals immunized with a control udg+ vector.
T cells immunized against MCA-induced fibrosarcoma (MC B6-1) togetherred together with the tumour cells protected the syngeneic host against tumour take.
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