Intranasal Antifungal Vaccination Using DNA-Transfected Dendritic Cells.

Intranasal Antifungal Vaccination Using DNA-Transfected Dendritic Cells.

Methods Mol Biol. 2017;1625:75-83

Authors: Awasthi S

Abstract
Dendritic cells are the most potent antigen-presenting cells, and are critical for the generation of an antigen-specific immune response and protective immunity. These unique features have been applied to dendritic cell-based immunization in a number of disease conditions. Our published results have demonstrated that the immunity induced by intranasal immunization with DNA-transfected dendritic cells results in reduced fungal burden, and alleviated lung tissue damage in a mouse model of pulmonary fungal infection. In this article, approaches for the preparation and characterization of DNA-transfected dendritic cells and intranasal immunization in mice are described.

PMID: 28584984 [PubMed - in process]

http://ift.tt/2qW1PjN