OBJECTIVE 1) To estimate the effectiveness of intranasal administration of CpG DNA alone on allergic rhinitis compared with intradermal administration; and 2) to find out how CpG DNA therapy is useful in treatment of allergic rhinitis. STUDY DESIGN Mice were intraperitoneally sensitized and intranasally challenged with Japanese cedar. Therapy with CpG DNA alone was also performed during chall...

Neck wrinkles commonly develop owing to the aging process. However, recently, the number of patients with neck wrinkles has been increasing. Also, an increasing number of young patients have presented with this condition, possibly because of the effect of the head-down posture that they adopt when using their computer or smartphone. We report two cases of young adults with a prominent neck wrin...

Microneedle-mediated Transdermal and Intradermal Drug Delivery covers the major aspects relating to the use of microneedle arrays in enhancing drug delivery applications. It provides an overview of the various methods employed to design and produce microneedles, from the different materials involved to the importance of application methods. It carefully and critically reviews ongoing transderma...

Five normal greyhounds were evaluated for hypersensitivity to various grasses, weeds, trees and fungi with both an intradermal allergy test and a commercial enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). All dogs were hyposensitized for 6 months with the same mixture of 14 allergens, according to the treatment schedule recommended by the commercial laboratory that provided the ELISA allergy test. F...

Skin represents an attractive target for DNA vaccine delivery because of its natural richness in APCs, whose targeting may potentiate the effect of vaccination. Nevertheless, intramuscular electroporation is the most common delivery method for ECTM vaccination. In this study we assessed whether intradermal administration could deliver the vaccine into different cell types and we analyzed the ev...

It has been observed in recent studies (9) that mice ot~ a pure inbred line can be immunized against a tumor that originated in an animal of the same line. The method employed for immunization (3, 4) consists of inoculating intradermally a small dose of tumor cell suspension. In certain instances the resulting intradermal tumors regress spontaneously, and animals that recover are immune to rein...