Vaccine Efficacy Evaluation: The Gnotobiotic Pig Model

ISBN-13: 9781032234748 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 189 str.

Lijuan Yuan

Opis

This book provides detailed information on establishing gnobiotic pig models, determining a proper virus inoculum pool and challenge dose, measuring protection and calculating efficacy, and delineating intestinal and systemic immune responses associated with the protection.

Spis treści

Preface. Acknowledgments. About the Author. Introduction. Establishment of Gn Pig Model of HRV Infection and Diarrhea: Infectivity and Pathogenesis of HRV in Gn Pigs. Establishment of Gn Pig Model of HuNoV Infection and Diarrhea. Evaluation of Live Oral and Inactivated Intramuscular HRV Vaccines in Gn Pigs. Virus-like Particles Given Intranasally or DNA Plasmids Given Intramuscularly Failed to Induce Any Protection in Gn Pigs. Prime-Boost Rotavirus Vaccine Regimens Are Highly Effective. Rotavirus P2-VP8* and P24-VP8* Intramuscular Vaccines Evaluated in Gn Pigs. Norovirus P Particle and VLP Vaccines Evaluated in Gn Pig Model of GII.4 HuNoV Infection and Diarrhea. Simvastatin Reduces Protection and Intestinal T cell Responses Induced by a Norovirus P Particle Vaccine in Gnotobiotic Pigs. Dissecting Importance of B Cells versus T Cells in Rotavirus Vaccine-Induced Immunity Using Gene Knockout Gn Pigs. Human Gut Microbiota-Transplanted Gn Pig Models for HRV Infection. Probiotics Modulate Adaptive Immune Responses to Oral HRV Vaccines in HGM Transplanted Gn Pigs. Probiotics Modulate Cell Signaling Pathway and Innate Cytokine Responses to Oral HRV Vaccine in HGM-Transplanted Gn Pigs. Probiotics as HRV Vaccine Adjuvants in Gn Pigs. Rice Bran as a Vaccine Adjuvant and as Prebiotics in Reducing Viral Diarrhea. References. Index.