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  • Open Access
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Design of Polymeric Nanocapsules for Intranasal Vaccination against Mycobacterium Tuberculosis: Influence of the Polymeric Shell and Antigen Positioning

  • Lara Diego-González,
  • José Crecente-Campo,
  • Matthew John Paul,
  • Mahavir Singh,
  • Rajko Reljic,
  • María José Alonso,
  • África González-Fernández and
  • Rosana Simón-Vázquez

Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading cause of death from a single infectious microorganism and Bacillus Calmette Guerin (BCG), the only authorized vaccine, does not confer protection against pulmonary TB. Based on the hypothesis that mucosal protection c...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
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Microbial Antigen-Presenting Extracellular Vesicles Derived from Genetically Modified Tumor Cells Promote Antitumor Activity of Dendritic Cells

  • Tomoko Ito,
  • Kikuya Sugiura,
  • Aya Hasegawa,
  • Wakana Ouchi,
  • Takayuki Yoshimoto,
  • Izuru Mizoguchi,
  • Toshio Inaba,
  • Katsuyuki Hamada,
  • Masazumi Eriguchi and
  • Yoshiyuki Koyama

Tumor-derived extracellular vesicles (EVs), as tumor vaccines, carry tumor-associated antigens (TAAs), and were expected to transfer TAAs to antigen-presenting cells. However, treatment with tumor-derived EVs exhibited no obvious antitumor effect on...