The regulation by light of retinal necrosis and the immune response following anterior chamber inoculation of herpes simplex virus type-1

1993 ◽  
Vol 131 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 115-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Kahn ◽  
H. J. Kaplan ◽  
T. A. Ferguson
2001 ◽  
Vol 75 (4) ◽  
pp. 1664-1671 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. M. Richards ◽  
A. T. Aman ◽  
T. R. Hirst ◽  
T. J. Hill ◽  
N. A. Williams

ABSTRACT The potential of nontoxic recombinant B subunits of cholera toxin (rCtxB) and its close relative Escherichia coli heat-labile enterotoxin (rEtxB) to act as mucosal adjuvants for intranasal immunization with herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) glycoproteins was assessed. Doses of 10 μg of rEtxB or above with 10 μg of HSV-1 glycoproteins elicited high serum and mucosal anti-HSV-1 titers comparable with that obtained using CtxB (10 μg) with a trace (0.5 μg) of whole toxin (Ctx-CtxB). By contrast, doses of rCtxB up to 100 μg elicited only meager anti-HSV-1 responses. As for Ctx-CtxB, rEtxB resulted in a Th2-biased immune response with high immunoglobulin G1 (IgG1)/IgG2a antibody ratios and production of interleukin 4 (IL-4) and IL-10 as well as gamma interferon by proliferating T cells. The protective efficacy of the immune response induced using rEtxB as an adjuvant was assessed following ocular challenge of immunized and mock-immunized mice. Epithelial disease was observed in both groups, but the immunized mice recovered by day 6 whereas mock-immunized mice developed more severe corneal disease leading to stromal keratitis. In addition, a significant reduction in the incidence of lid disease and zosteriform spread was observed in immunized animals and there was no encephalitis compared with 95% encephalitis in mock-immunized mice. The potential of such mucosal adjuvants for use in human vaccines against pathogens such as HSV-1 is discussed.


1982 ◽  
Vol 2 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 295-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorne Kastrukoff ◽  
Takeshi Hamada ◽  
Udo Schumacher ◽  
Carol Long ◽  
Peter C. Doherty ◽  
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