The growing incidences of new viral diseases and increasingly frequent viral epidemics have strained therapeutic and preventive measures; the high mutability of viral genes puts additional strains on developmental efforts. Given the high cost and time requirements for new drugs development, vaccines remain as a viable alternative, but there too traditional techniques of live-attenuated or inact...

A vaccine designed to treat breast cancer has performed surprisingly well in an initial clinical study. In a phase II trial of 186 patients, the vaccine targeting the HER2/neu E75 peptide reduced the risk of recurrence by 50% in 101 breast cancer patients who were clinically disease free after treatment compared with those who were not treated with the vaccine. Immunized patients also had about...

background hypervariability of hcv proteins is an important obstacle to design an efficient vaccine for hcv infection. multi-epitope vaccines containing conserved epitopes of the virus could be a promising approach for protection against hcv. objectives cellular and humoral immune responses against multi-epitope dna and peptide vaccines were evaluated in balb/c mice. materials and methods in th...

Abstract Fowl pox vaccine is produced in the Razi Institute for almost half a century and has a favorable and productive yield in poultry flocks and has provided complete satisfaction to the poultry breeder. In terms of comparing the efficacy of this vaccine with imported vaccines, the following research was conducted. In this study, based on the latest protocols of European Pharmacopeia and O...

avian pasteurella multocida is an agent of fowl cholera. the protective effect achieved through orthodoxvaccines is not ideal. the research on novel vaccines against avian pasteurella multocida is imperative. inthis study, the genes encoding outer membrane protein h and a (omph and ompa) were cloned into theeukaryotic expression vector pcdna3.1(+) and the recombinant plasmids, namely dna vaccin...

Human papillomavirus (HPV) occurs in many types, some of which cause cervical, genital, and other cancers. While vaccination is available against the major cancer-causing HPV types, many others are not covered by these preventive measures. Herein, we present a bioinformatics study for the designing of multivalent peptide vaccines against multiple HPV types as an alternative strategy to the viru...

Objective(s): Production of effective tuberculosis (TB) vaccine is necessity. However, the development of new subunit vaccines is faced with concerns about their weak immunogenicity. To overcome such problems, polymers-based vaccine delivery systems have been proposed to be used via various routes. The purpose of this study was to determine the potential of polymeric particles as future vaccine...

BACKGROUND Informed consent based on comprehension of potential risks and benefits is fundamental to the ethical conduct of clinical research. We explored mental models of candidate HIV vaccines and clinical trials that may impact on the feasibility and ethics of biomedical HIV prevention trials among men who have sex with men (MSM) in India. METHODS A community-based research project was des...

background: comparison between infectious bursal disease vaccines. objectives: comparison between foreign and iranian intermediate uncloned gumboro vaccines on feed conversion ratio. methods: three hundred and thirty day-old chicks were purchased and for determination of vaccination time by deventer formula, thirty chicks were randomly bled and the remaining chicks divided into 3 equal groups, ...