Temperature - sensitive mutants with lesions
in the vaccinia virus F10 kinase undergo arrest at the earliest stage of virion morphogenesis.
Elucidating the essential role of the A14 phosphoprotein
in vaccinia virus morphogenesis: construction and characterization of a Tetracycline - inducible recombinant.
Not exact matches
Bavarian Nordic, a German - Danish company, produces a weakened
vaccinia strain called Modified
Vaccinia Ankara (MVA) that doesn't replicate
in humans.
Lederman, who says he's «obsessed» with Jenner and has been working on a biography of the scientist for 20 years, is convinced that Jenner's original vaccine, now named
vaccinia, was derived from a virus circulating
in horses, not cows, as folklore has it.
In a conversation about one of Evan's earlier
vaccinia papers, Lederman told Evans that he'd love to know whether horsepox still works as a vaccine, but that he had had trouble getting hold of the virus.
Protein chemist Michael Way, cell biologist Sally Cudmore, and their colleagues at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory
in Heidelberg and at the Pasteur Institute
in Paris have found that
vaccinia — a virus used
in smallpox vaccines — surfs through cells on piles of actin, one of the basic structural proteins
in the cellular skeleton.
In vivo, primary and secondary cytotoxic T cell responses against
vaccinia and lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus were within normal ranges.
However, the classic smallpox vaccine, a weakened poxvirus called
vaccinia, can cause serious side effects and even death
in people with compromised immune systems, eczema, or atopic dermatitis.
Similarly, the entry for
vaccinia, and even an essay on virology (one of 124 «windows» reviews by luminaries
in their fields), mention smallpox without saying that it has been eradicated — one of the greatest achievements of medical science.
Both assays (for translation enhancement and internal ribosomal initiation) were validated under cell - free conditions and
in human cells, using a
vaccinia virus vector.
When researchers infected these ERV - depleted cells with the
vaccinia virus (which may be related to smallpox), they had a much weaker innate immune response than unedited normal cells, the team reports online today
in Science.
The standard smallpox vaccine, a virus called
vaccinia, is amazingly effective, which explains how the disease was eradicated
in the late 1970s.
PANVAC - V, which uses the same virus as the smallpox vaccine, is a live but weakened
vaccinia vaccine (meaning the virus can still multiply) that is given
in the arm.
Using a light microscope, researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
in Zürich watched fluorescently tagged
vaccinia virus — a more benign cousin of smallpox virus — migrate toward target cells.
When the
vaccinia virus was delivered
in CIK cells, it was evenly distributed throughout the tumor (left).
Thanks to its resemblance to the smallpox virus, researchers were able to use
vaccinia as a vaccine for the disease, eventually leading to its eradication
in the late 1970s.
«The novelty here, with
vaccinia, is that it's not just preventing the virus superinfecting, but physically it's repelling the virus away,» says Smith, whose team reports its findings today
in Science.
(D) The average number of somatic hypermutations
in the pandemic H1N1 patient plasmablast variable region genes compared with primary IgG plasmablast responses to
vaccinia (small pox) or the anthrax vaccine, or after at least 4 boosters with the anthrax vaccine.
Jäger E, Karbach J, Gnjatic S, Neumann A, Bender A, Valmori D, Ayyoub M, Ritter E, Ritter G, Jäger D, Panicali D, Hoffman E, Pan L, Oettgen H, Old LJ, Knuth A. Recombinant
vaccinia / fowlpox NY - ESO - 1 vaccines induce both humoral and cellular NY - ESO -1-specific immune responses
in cancer patients.
[3] Odunsi K, Matsuzaki J, Karbach J, Neumann A, Mhawech - Fauceglia P, Miller A, Beck A, Morrison CD, Ritter G, Godoy H, Lele S, duPont N, Edwards R, Shrikant P, Old LJ, Gnjatic S, Jäger E. Efficacy of vaccination with recombinant
vaccinia and fowlpox vectors expressing NY - ESO - 1 antigen
in ovarian cancer and melanoma patients.
On March 3, 2007, a two - year - old boy suffering from severe eczema and an unusual, widespread rash was transferred from St. Catherine's Hospital,
in East Chicago, IN, to the University of Chicago's Comer Children's Hospital where he was diagnosed with eczema vaccinatum — a rare, severe, adverse reaction to the vaccinia viru
in East Chicago,
IN, to the University of Chicago's Comer Children's Hospital where he was diagnosed with eczema vaccinatum — a rare, severe, adverse reaction to the vaccinia viru
IN, to the University of Chicago's Comer Children's Hospital where he was diagnosed with eczema vaccinatum — a rare, severe, adverse reaction to the
vaccinia virus.
Differences and similarities
in viral life cycle progression and host cell physiology after infection of human dendritic cells with modified
vaccinia virus Ankara and
vaccinia virus.
Raised
in mice primed with a SIVmac251 gp160
vaccinia recombinant (vAbT253), and boosted with glutaraldehyde - fixed SIVmac11 / 88 from C8166 cells.
The Pexa - Vec virus was originally developed by Michael Mastrangelo, MD, and Edmund Lattime, PhD, of Thomas Jefferson University
in Philadelphia, who engineered the harmless
vaccinia virus to infect only cancer cells and other rapidly dividing cells, as well as to stimulate immune activity,
in hopes of boosting the immune response to tumors.
Prime - boost vaccination with chimpanzee adenovirus and modified
vaccinia Ankara encoding TRAP provides partial protection against Plasmodium falciparum infection
in Kenyan adult.
In another report,
vaccinia was used as a vector vaccine for immunizing Balb / c mice with each of the SARS - CoV structural proteins (N, S, membrane, and envelope) and then challenged with SARS - CoV [21].
While at UConn, he researched improvements to the system for generating recombinant
vaccinia viruses
in the laboratory of Dr. Paulo Verardi.
Odunsi K, Matsuzaki J, Karbach J, Neumann A, Mhawech - Fauceglia P, Miller A, Beck A, Morrison CD, Ritter G, Godoy H, Lele S, Dupont N, Edwards R, Shrikant P, Old LJ, Gnjatic S, Jager E. (2012) Efficacy of vaccination with recombinant
vaccinia and fowlpox vectors expressing NY - ESO - 1 antigen
in ovarian cancer and melanoma patients.
Agricola J, Munseri PJ, Nilsson C, Bakari M, Aboud S, Lyamuya EF, Tecleab T, Liakina V, Scarlatti G, Robb, ML, Earl PL, Moss B, Wahren B, Mhalu F, Ferrari G, Sandstrom E, Biberfeld G. Three - year durability of immune responses induced by HIV - DNA and HIV - modified
vaccinia virus Ankara and effect of a late HIV - MVA boost
in Tanzanian volunteers.