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Influenza Virus and Vaccination
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ISBN: 3039288180 3039288172 Year: 2020 Publisher: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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The influenza virus poses a threat to human health and is responsible for global epidemics every year. In addition to seasonal infections, influenza can cause occasional pandemics of great consequence when novel viruses are introduced into humans. Despite the implementation of comprehensive vaccination programs, influenza viruses continue to pose an important and unpredictable global public health threat. They are one of the most significant causes of morbidity and mortality each year and have a significant economic impact. In recent years, research has been conducted to find alternative approaches to influenza vaccine development, including the generation of universal vaccines. Notably, significant progress in the field of influenza infection, transmission, and immunity have contributed to our understanding of influenza biology, and to expanding the technological approaches for the generation of more efficient strategies against influenza infections. Moreover, highly remarkable developments have been made in the implementation of new methodologies to evaluate the efficiency of vaccines and improve them for use on domestic animals such as poultry, horses, dogs or pigs. This enables us to decrease the exposure of humans to potentially pandemic viruses. The articles in this Special Issue will address the importance of influenza to human health and the advances in influenza research that have led to the development of better therapeutics and vaccination strategies.


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Nanobody
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Year: 2021 Publisher: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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Nanobodies have become outstanding tools for biomedical research, diagnostics and therapy. Recent advances in the identification and functionalization of target-specific nanobodies now make nanobody-based approaches broadly available to many researches in the field. This book provides a compilation of original research articles and comprehensive reviews covering important and up to date aspects of research on nanobodies and their applications for immunoassays, proteomics, protein crystallization and in vitro and in vivo imaging.

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Bacillus anthracis --- immunoassay --- single-domain antibody --- genetic fusion --- Beta galactosidase --- P-type ATPase --- nanobody --- llama --- Zinc-transport --- Zinc-transporting P-ATPase --- ZntA --- TNF --- fluorescent --- nanobodies --- sensor --- anti-cytokine therapy --- autoimmune disease --- Western equine encephalitis virus --- MagPlex --- toxin --- antibody --- camelid --- vaccine --- biodefense --- hydrogen exchange-mass spectrometry --- virus --- formatting --- Fc-domain --- half-life --- ischemia --- stroke --- MCAO --- single domain antibodies --- phage display --- intrabody --- intracellular antibody --- GTPase RHO --- BRET --- RAS --- chromobodies --- live-cell imaging --- compound screening --- cellular models --- single-domain antibody fragments --- molecular imaging --- molecular therapy --- nuclear imaging --- targeted fluorescence imaging --- intraoperative imaging --- Nanobody --- Single Domain Antibody --- Cancer --- Immunotherapy --- Imaging --- influenza --- influenza B virus --- hemagglutinin --- single domain antibody --- NanobodyTM --- yeast display --- epitope mapping --- GFP --- C. elegans --- development --- drosophila --- zebrafish --- targeted photodynamic therapy --- hepatocyte growth factor receptor --- HGFR --- c-Met --- Met --- VHH --- photosensitizer --- single-domain antibodies --- neurodegenerative diseases --- brain imaging --- blood–brain barrier --- delivery --- Aids --- HIV --- Llama Antibodies --- bi-specific VHH --- pepscan --- competition studies --- co-crystallisation --- n/a --- blood-brain barrier


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Matrix Metalloproteinase
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Year: 2020 Publisher: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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Zinc-dependent matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) belong to metzincins that comprise not only 23 human MMPs but also other metalloproteinases, such as 21 human ADAMs (a disintegrin and metalloproteinase domain) and 19 secreted ADAMTSs (a disintegrin and metalloproteinase thrombospondin domain). The many setbacks from the clinical trials of broad-spectrum MMP inhibitors for cancer indications in the late 1990s emphasized the extreme complexity of the participation of these proteolytic enzymes in biology. This editorial mini-review summarizes the Special Issue, which includes four review articles and 10 original articles that highlight the versatile roles of MMPs, ADAMs, and ADAMTSs, in normal physiology as well as in neoplastic and destructive processes in tissue. In addition, we briefly discuss the unambiguous involvement of MMPs in wound healing.


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Antiviral Agents
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Year: 2020 Publisher: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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Antiviral agents are used for the treatment of viral diseases. Antiviral drugs have been successfully developed and used clinically for a limited number of important human viral diseases notably caused by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis C virus (HCV), hepatitis B virus (HBV), herpes, and influenza viruses. Despite the successes of these antiviral drugs, issues with drug resistance and toxicity remain challenging. These challenges are driving research to identify new drug candidates and to investigate novel drug targets to develop new mechanistic drug classes. Antiviral agents are not available against many viruses that cause human disease and economic burdens; in particular, the development of antiviral agents against emerging, re-emerging, and neglected viruses is increasingly becoming a priority. This book includes six review articles that discuss new antiviral strategies. The reviews either discuss advances relating to a specific virus or new therapeutic targets and approaches. The book includes 15 original research articles reporting new antiviral agents against a variety of clinically and economically important viruses and studies into the prevalence or acquisition of drug resistance. Overall, this book is an exciting collection of new research and ideas relating to the development of antiviral agents.

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Zika virus --- nucleoside analogues --- antiviral agents --- NS5 --- prodrugs --- ProTides --- neural stem cells --- RNA-dependent RNA polymerase --- cytomegalovirus --- latent infection --- TALEN --- Surveyor nuclease mutation detection assay --- ie-1 gene --- quantitative real-time PCR --- Epstein–Barr virus --- herpes viruses --- lytic gene expression --- Burkitt lymphoma cells --- clozapine --- antipsychotic drug --- antiviral drug --- enteroviruses --- coxsackievirus B4 --- persistent infection --- fluoxetine --- resistance --- mutations --- herpes B virus --- macacine herpesvirus-1 --- genistein --- flavonoids --- acyclovir --- ganciclovir --- Plantago asiatica --- Clerodendrum trichotomum --- RSV --- therapeutic effects --- acteoside --- human antimicrobial peptides --- antiviral strategies --- defensins --- cathelicidins --- hepcidins --- transferrins --- influenza A virus --- brevilin A --- antiviral --- sesquiterpene lactone --- replication --- PRRSV --- polyethylenimine --- PEI --- virion internalization --- endocytosis --- HIV --- pediatrics --- Ethiopia --- pre-treatment drug resistance --- combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) --- dried plasma spots --- dried blood spots --- sphingolipids --- glycosphingolipids --- viruses --- lipid biosynthesis --- flavivirus --- Japanese encephalitis virus --- furin inhibitor --- precursor membrane protein --- measles virus --- central nervous system --- tropism --- treatments --- porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus --- ginsenoside Rg1 --- antiviral activity --- pro-inflammatory factor --- NF-κB signaling pathway --- acute/latent infection --- congenital infection --- antiviral agent --- therapeutic strategies --- nucleic acid-based therapeutic approach --- HCMV vaccine --- adoptive cell therapy --- Rev response element --- chemical footprinting --- SHAPE --- drug discovery --- branched peptides --- herpesvirus --- immediate-early --- IE1 --- IE2 --- ribozyme --- RNA interference --- CRISPR/Cas --- small molecule --- orthohantavirus --- phenyl-benzotriazoles --- C-FRA --- Porcine circovirus type 2 --- epigallocatechin gallate --- heparan sulfate --- antiviral effect --- virus attachment --- microvirin --- lectin --- human immunodeficiency virus --- hepatitis C virus --- antiviral inhibitor --- non-immunogenic --- viral entry --- protein drugs --- LUMS1 --- oleanane-type derivatives --- influenza A virus (IAV) --- virus entry inhibitors --- hemagglutinin (HA) --- n/a --- Epstein-Barr virus

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