«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.
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.
Not exact matches
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.
Replication of
vaccinia is the first step to killing cancer cells and shrinking tumors
with this approach.
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.
Over one month, 30 people
with an advanced form of hepatocellular carcinoma — the most common type of liver cancer — received three doses of a genetically engineered version of the
vaccinia virus.
(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.
[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.
Late last week, FDA worked
with the United States Attorney to ask a court to seize the components of a product that involved the use of
vaccinia virus vaccine as part of a purported treatment for cancer that FDA believes created the potential for substantial risks to 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 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.
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].
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.
To do this, a team led by Matthew Weitzman of the University of Pennsylvania crosslinked the host factors of infected human cells
with the DNA of adenovirus, herpes simplex virus and
vaccinia virus.
MHRP scientists, working
with NIAID, have developed an attenuated viral vector — modified
vaccinia Ankara — vaccine candidate, MVA - CMDR (HIV - 1 CM235 env / CM240 gag - pol).
Temperature - sensitive mutants
with lesions in the
vaccinia virus F10 kinase undergo arrest at the earliest stage of virion morphogenesis.