Progress towards Adjuvant Development: Focus on Antiviral Therapy.

ABSTRACT: In recent decades, vaccines have been extraordinary resources to prevent pathogen diffusion and cancer. Even if they can be formed by a single antigen, the addition of one or more adjuvants represents the key to enhance the response of the immune signal to the antigen, thus accelerating and increasing the duration and the potency of the protective effect. Their use is of particular importance for vulnerable populations, such as the elderly or immunocompromised people. Despite their importance, only in the last forty years has the search for novel adjuvants increased, with the discovery of novel classes of immune potentiators and immunomodulators. Due to the complexity of the cascades involved in immune signal activation, their mechanism of action remains poorly understood, even if signific

SUBMITTER: Brai A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10253057 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature