HIV Vaccines

Rabies-Based Vector Triggers Anti-Gag Response

Published in AIDS Weekly, September 17th, 2001

by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Rabies virus-based vectors that express the Gag protein have shown promise as an HIV vaccine candidate, researchers in the United States report.

"Recent research suggests that the HIV-1 Gag protein is [an] important target for cell-mediated host immune defense," according to Matthias J. Schnell and colleagues at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia and George Washington University in Washington, DC.

Schnell and coworkers demonstrated that rabies virus vectors can efficiently express Gag and that such constructs can trigger antiviral immune responses in a murine model.

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Source: AIDS Weekly (2001-09-17)

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