Polymyxins as novel and safe mucosal adjuvants to induce humoral immune responses in mice.

There is currently an urgent need to develop safe and effective adjuvants for enhancing vaccine-induced antigen-specific immune responses. We demonstrate here that intranasal immunization with clinically used polypeptide antibiotics, polymyxin B (PMB) and colistin (CL), along with ovalbumin (OVA), i...

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Main Authors: Naoto Yoshino, Masahiro Endo, Hiroyuki Kanno, Naomi Matsukawa, Reiko Tsutsumi, Ryosuke Takeshita, Shigehiro Sato
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3623863?pdf=render