Programming cytomegalovirus as an HIV vaccine

LJ Picker, JD Lifson, M Gale, SG Hansen, K Früh - Trends in immunology, 2023 - cell.com
The initial development of cytomegalovirus (CMV) as a vaccine vector for HIV/simian
immunodeficiency virus (SIV) was predicated on its potential to pre-position high-frequency …

Novel technologies are turning a dream into reality: conditionally replicating viruses as vaccines

YD Tang, C Yu, XH Cai - Trends in Microbiology, 2023 - cell.com
Conditionally replicating viruses (CRVs) are a type of virus with one or more essential gene
functions that are impaired resulting in the disruption of viral genome replication, protein …

[HTML][HTML] Generating and measuring effective vaccine-elicited HIV-specific CD8+ T cell responses

GM Borgo, RL Rutishauser - Current Opinion in HIV and AIDS, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Identifying a vaccine capable of generating durable T cell responses that target mutationally
vulnerable epitopes and that can rapidly intercept infecting or rebounding virus remains a …

Mucosal T-cell responses to chronic viral infections: Implications for vaccine design

M Al-Talib, S Dimonte, IR Humphreys - Cellular & Molecular …, 2024 - nature.com
Mucosal surfaces that line the respiratory, gastrointestinal and genitourinary tracts are the
major interfaces between the immune system and the environment. Their unique …

Metagenomic comparison of intestinal microbiota between normal and liver fibrotic rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta)

Y Wei, J Li, B Zhu, Q Hu, M Lan, J Zhou, J Luo… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Liver fibrosis is an important pathological process in chronic liver disease and cirrhosis.
Recent studies have found a close association between intestinal microbiota and the …