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Reports outline vaccines study results from University of Sao Paulo

Published in Vaccine Weekly, May 28th, 2008

Fresh data on vaccines are presented in the report 'Use of proteoliposome as a vaccine against Trypanosoma cruzi in mice.' "We have generated proteoliposomes carrying proteins of Trypanosoma cruzi for use as immunogens in BALB/c mice. T. cruzi trypomastigote and amastigote forms were sonicated and mixed with SDS, with 94% recovery of soluble proteins. To prepare proteoliposomes, we have used a protocol in which dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine, dipalmitoyl-phosphatidylserine and cholesterol were incubated with the parasite proteins," scientists writing in the journal Chemistry and Physics of Lipids report.

"BALB/c mice immunized with 20microg were...

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