New Th2 adjuvants for preventive and active immunotherapy of neurodegenerative proteinopathies.

Abstract:

:Active immunotherapy of neurodegenerative proteinopathies, such as Alzheimer's disease, requires a Th2 antibody immune response with exclusion of damaging inflammatory Th1 immunity. Because these diseases affect the elderly whom, owing to immunosenescence, are frequently immune compromised, a successful therapy would require immune agonists capable of eliciting Th2 immunity solely while ameliorating the immune decline linked to aging; an objective hampered by the scarcity of Th2 immune agonists. The fact that some helminth-derived glycans and modified triterpene glycosides elicit Th2 immunity only, even when administered with antigens carrying T cell epitopes, presents new ways to improve the active immune therapy of proteinopathies. Of additional benefit is that these triterpene glycosides could amend some of the detrimental effects of the immunosenescence.

journal_name

Drug Discov Today

journal_title

Drug discovery today

authors

Marciani DJ

doi

10.1016/j.drudis.2014.02.015

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2014-07-01 00:00:00

pages

912-20

issue

7

eissn

1359-6446

issn

1878-5832

pii

S1359-6446(14)00077-4

journal_volume

19

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