新型佐剂在破伤风抗毒素血浆生产中的应用研究

应用两种新型佐剂(Montan inde ISA 50V和Montan inde ISA 206)分别乳化精制破伤风类毒素制备成油乳抗原,免疫豚鼠三程,并与弗氏不完全佐剂(FIA)进行对比;在弗氏不完全佐剂免疫马匹到第7程后,改换新型佐剂抗原免疫三程(第8、9、10程)。采用小鼠中和试验测定血清效价。结果表明,两种新型佐剂使用安全,稳定性良好,且操作方便;使用Montan inde ISA 50V免疫豚鼠与马匹的免疫效果均有明显优势,Montan inde ISA 206次之,FIA效果相对较差。表明新型佐剂Montan inde ISA 50V的应用前景良好。     

用马匹制备炭疽沉淀素诊断血清的试验小结

本文报告了用炭疽死菌抗原免疫马匹制备炭疽沉淀素血清的试验情况:证明静脉注射水剂抗原和皮下或肌肉注射油剂抗原,在超免疫达第四针免疫时(即自免疫开始第27天后)就可获得在3—5分钟出现环状沉淀反应的诊断血清。     

抗绿脓杆菌外毒素 A 血浆的研制

试验制备了抗绿脓杆菌外毒素－Ａ血浆,使用马匹免疫抗原为精制ＰＡ－１０３菌株的外毒素－Ａ。抗血浆效价第一程采血达到了２０８８单位／ｍｌ,第三程采血达到５１８６单位／ｍｌ。     

金黄色葡萄球菌特异性卵黄抗体的制备及其影响因素

目的:考察金黄色葡萄球菌特异性卵黄抗体制备过程中的影响因素.方法:以灭活的金黄色葡萄球菌为抗原,采用不同的浓度(108cfu/mL,109cfu/mL,1010cfu/mL)、在不同免疫佐剂(商品弗氏佐剂和自制弗氏佐剂)作用下,对不同日龄(120天和300天)的蛋鸡进行免疫.免疫后收集鸡蛋,蛋黄用6倍体积水稀释,采用ELISA法测定抗体效价.结果:抗原浓度为109cfu/mL所得抗体效价最高;免疫120日龄蛋鸡获得抗体效价高于免疫300日龄蛋鸡所得抗体效价;在抗原浓度和蛋鸡日龄相同的情况下,商品弗氏佐剂比自制具有更好的免疫增强作用.结论:特异性卵黄抗体制备受多种因素的影响,抗原浓度、蛋鸡日龄、佐剂质量均对卵黄中特异性抗体水平有影响.     

兰州生物制品研究所马匹免疫血浆单采术创意由来

本人有从事冻干健康人血浆研制、马匹饲养、马匹免疫采血和负责原料血浆单采站业务的切身经历,发现血浆单采术具有强大的生命力,很自然联想到人血浆单采术也可以移植到马匹免疫血浆的采集,于是马匹免疫血浆单采术的创意就产生了。在兰州生物制品研究所职工代表大会的发言时谈出了自己的观点,得到了免疫室同仁的响应并付诸实施。     

流感新型黏膜疫苗的研究

目的评价PorA、PorB和Class4对流感裂解疫苗的免疫增强作用,从中挑选出最有效的流感黏膜佐剂,为发展流感黏膜疫苗提供理论基础。方法流感三价裂解抗原按比例与PorA、PorB和Class4非共价结合,滴鼻免疫Balb／c小鼠3次,采取间接ELISA检测血清特异性IgG抗体及抗体亚型,检测鼻咽、肺、小肠和阴道冲洗液中IgA效价,采用血凝抑制试验检测血清中HAI效价。结果PorB重组蛋白佐剂组较无佐剂的流感裂解抗原组在提高小鼠早期免疫应答的同时诱导较强的系统免疫应答和黏膜免疫应答;PorA组也有黏膜佐剂的功能,但和无佐剂的流感裂解抗原组相比,差异无统计学意义。结论在蛋白体的三分子中,以PorB为佐剂的流感黏膜疫苗不仅提高了抗原的系统免疫应答,而且诱导了较强的小鼠呼吸道、生殖道的局部黏膜免疫应答,为流感黏膜疫苗的研制奠定了理论基础。     

应用双抗原ELISA夹心法检测破伤风抗毒素效力的试验

作者建立了一套适用于破伤风抗毒素效力检测的双抗原夹心ELISA法,对破伤风类毒素免疫后的豚鼠和马匹分别进行了血清效价测定,并和传统的小鼠攻毒法的效力检测进行了比较,结果表明：该检测方法与小鼠攻毒法对不同水平的破伤风抗毒素效力检测,结果是一致的,有很好的相关性;此法省时、特异、灵敏,可成为另一种检测破伤风抗毒素的有效方法。     

双歧杆菌处理体对弱抗原免疫应答的影响

目的：探讨双歧杆菌菌处理体在疫苗免疫中的载体／佐剂作用及对诱导免疫应答的影响。方法：将双歧杆菌菌处理体偶联乙肝病毒基因工程表面抗原(HBsAg)成拟菌颗粒免疫C57 BL／6小鼠,二次免疫后5w,ELISA方法测定小鼠血清抗-HBS的阳性率及抗体效价;MTT方法测定免疫小鼠NK的杀伤活性;RT—PCR方法测定免疫小鼠脾淋巴细胞中γ干扰素(IFN-γ)的表达;生物活性方法测定该小鼠腹腔巨噬细胞α干扰素(IFN—α)分泌,并与抗原对照组、商业乙肝疫苗组、完全福氏佐剂组(CFA)进行比较,评定菌处理体佐剂疫苗的效果。初步探讨菌处理体用于疫苗的机制。结果：菌处理体疫苗组抗-HBS的阳性率与效价、NK杀伤活性、IFN—α体内诱生水平与商业疫苗对照组比较差异有显著性(P＜0．05),与CFA比较差异无显著性(P＞0．05),在菌处理组及CFA组IFN—γ表达阳性,其他两组为阴性。结论：菌处理体佐剂具有明显增强弱抗原疫苗诱导免疫应答的作用。     

一种提高破伤风类毒素马匹免疫成功率的方法

采用抗原加倍方法用于成率率低于705群的巴匹免疫,结果显示,进一步免疫成功的马匹明显多于常规免疫（P＜0．05）,免疫效价和死亡率无明显变化（P＞0．05）。     

肉毒A、B、E、F型抗毒素血浆的试生产与检定

按照《中国生物制品规程》(2000版)的规定,在肉毒A、B、E、F型抗毒素血浆试生产前,制定了肉毒A、B、E、F型类毒素马匹免疫计划及相应抗毒素血浆效价测定方法,免疫结果显示：肉毒A、B、E、F型类毒素免疫马匹成功率分别为75%、75%、60%、100%。     

Murine red blood cells as efficient carriers of three bacterial antigens for the production of specific and neutralizing antibodies.

Three bacterial toxoids, CRM 197 (mutagenized diphtheria toxin), tetanus toxoid (formaldehyde-treated tetanus toxin), and PT-9K/129G (double mutant of pertussin toxin) were encapsulated within red blood cells (RBCs) of B6D2F1 and Balb/C mice according to a mild procedure based on hypotonic dialysis-isotonic resealing that yielded undamaged RBCs. The toxoid-loaded RBCs were injected intravenously in order to immunize animals and their effects were compared to those of identical amounts (30-95 micrograms per mouse subdivided into multiple injections) of the corresponding free toxoids injected intravenously in saline. Sera from treated mice were collected and tested for titers of specific antibodies against each of the three antigens and also for titers of neutralizing antibodies, i.e., affording protection from toxic effects induced by the corresponding native toxins. In all experiments, significant seroconversion was observed with both immunization systems. Titers of both specific and neutralizing antibodies against CRM 197 and tetanus toxoid were several-fold higher upon immunization with the RBC-encapsulated toxoids, than with the free toxoids. These differences were not due to qualitatively different recognition patterns of antigenic determinants by the two types of sera. Conversely, intravenous immunization with pertussis toxoid either as RBC-encapsulated or as free antigen elicited a comparably high production of specific and of neutralizing antibodies. These data demonstrate that properly engineered RBCs behave as natural carriers and possibly adjuvants for antigens of vaccinal interest.     

Studies on adjuvants for human prophylactics. III. Comparison of adjuvanticity in different animal species.

Activities of common adjuvants were compared in mice, rabbits and monkeys with tetanus toxoid as an antigen. Aluminium gel showed consistently high adjuvanticity for antitoxin production in all animal species examined when administered subcutaneously. Water-in-oil in water (w/o/w) showed high activity comparable to that of aluminium in mice and rabbits but no activity in monkeys. Endotoxin was considerably effective in rabbits and monkeys but not so in mice. Production of both IgM and IgG antitoxin was promoted by the effective adjuvants in rabbits and monkeys. In mice, however, the effects of adjuvants on the production of IgM antitoxin was less significant and inconsistent. Contrary to the case of guinea pigs, tetanus antitoxin was produced in mice by ip injection to a level comparable to that induced by sc injection. The effects of adjuvants in mice administered by ip and sc injection were not significantly different from each other.     

Comparative study of the immunoglobulins and specific antibodies in the blood of rabbits immunized with ADTP vaccine and ADT-anatoxin with normal and reduced antigen contents

Adsorbed DPT vaccine and adsorbed DT toxoids with normal and reduced antigen content were used for the immunization of rabbits. The levels of IgM and IgG and the dynamics of antibodies to diphtheria and tetanus toxins and to Bordetella pertussis in the blood sera of the animals were studied in the postvaccinal period (on days 15 and 34). This study revealed that the reduction of the antigen content of adsorbed DT toxoid to 5 Lf of diphtheria toxoid and 5 binding units of tetanus toxoid did not decrease the capacity of the preparation for increasing the levels of IgG and IgM, antibodies to diphtheria and tetanus toxins in the sera of the rabbits. The reduced content of these toxoids in adsorbed DPT vaccine did not affect its capacity for inducing the enhanced synthesis of IgG, antibodies to diphtheria and tetanus toxins, while the production of IgM and IgA remained unchanged. At the same time an increase in the titers of antibodies to B. pertussis in the animals was less pronounced than that observed after the injection of commercial adsorbed DPT vaccine. Additional investigations are necessary in order to establish the protective potency of the pertussis component in adsorbed DPT vaccine with the reduced content of toxoids and to find out the optimum antigenic composition for this preparation.     

The partially degraded lipopolysaccharide of Burkholderia cepacia and ornithine-containing lipids derived from some Gram-negative bacteria are useful complex lipid adjuvants

The partially degraded lipopolysaccharide of Burkholderia cepacia (LPSdegr) and the ornithine-containing lipids were purified from some bacteria. The substances were developed as complex lipid adjuvants, because they have weak toxicity and are able to activate the immune systems of the living body. After various toxoid antigens such as pertussis toxoid, diphtheria toxoid and tetanus toxoid were mixed with the complex lipid adjuvants, the mixtures were administered to mice subcutaneously. Antitoxoid IgG antibody titers in the serum were measured several times over 3 months. The efficacy of the LPSdegr as adjuvant was almost as high as that of the ornithine-containing lipids, and it was almost equal to that of the aluminum hydroxide adjuvant (Alum), which is generally used as a vaccine adjuvant.     

Delayed cutaneous hypersensitivity response in tetanus toxoid sensitized rhesus monkeys: predictor of anergy and value in tuberculin skin testing

The primary problem in using the tuberculin skin test in nonhuman primates is the clinical uncertainty concerning the animal's ability to elicit a delayed cutaneous hypersensitivity response. A negative tuberculin skin test can only be meaningful if the animal can produce a delayed cutaneous hypersensitivity reaction. Veterinarians deliberately sensitize animals to antigens in the form of prophylactic vaccination. Therefore, if nonhuman primates were deliberately sensitized to an antigen capable of producing a hypersensitivity response, that antigen should serve as a positive control for delayed cutaneous hypersensitivity reactions. Tetanus toxoid was chosen because repeated immunizations with this antigen is recommended routine medical practice for nonhuman primates housed outdoors. Twenty juvenile, male rhesus (Macaca mulatta) monkeys were selected for this study. The monkeys were assigned randomly to one of two groups of ten animals. The test group was vaccinated with tetanus toxoid intramuscularly at 1 month intervals for a total of three vaccinations. The control group was treated the same except saline was administered rather than tetanus toxoid. Following sensitization, the two groups of animals were challenged with tetanus toxoid intradermally. Eight of the ten monkeys in the test group responded to the tetanus toxoid while none of the control groups responded to the tetanus toxoid. Elicitation of a delayed cutaneous response in animals sensitized to tetanus antigen before challenge may serve as a positive control for delayed cutaneous hypersensitivity. This simple test may serve as a useful adjunct in making objective clinical decisions concerning anergy-suspect animals.     

Modification of the ELISA for the estimation of tetanus antitoxin in human sera

The use of indirect ELISA for the quantitation of tetanus toxin neutralizing antibodies in human sera is limited by marked overestimations in low titered sera. The reasons for the discrepancy between the results obtained by ELISA and by in vivo assay and modifications of the ELISA to overcome the problem were investigated. Catching ELISA and indirect ELISA using trays coated with the contaminant proteins in toxoid preparations indicated that antibodies to contaminants were only partly responsible for the discrepancy and the introduction of these modifications did not solve the problem. In ELISA competition experiments with toxin neutralizing monoclonal antibodies, the human immunoglobulins irrelevant in toxin neutralization, but detectable in indirect ELISA, were found to be difficult to inhibit in their binding to the solid antigen phase. These might represent antitoxins bound bivalently to the solid phase but with affinities in monovalent binding insufficient for toxin neutralization or other coupled antibodies due to conformational changes of the antigen. A competition ELISA with toxin in solution was therefore developed to assess selectively the antitoxin capable of binding the antigen in solution and by this approach the in vivo activities of even low titered sera were accurately predicted. This antigen competition ELISA may be easily introduced into routine tetanus serology and the principle may also be of value for the in vitro detection of functional antibodies to other antigens.     

The role of the O antigen in adjuvant activity of lipopolysaccharide

Adjuvant activities of isogenic Salmonella enterica, serovar Typhimurium, O-6,7 and O-4,5,12 lipopolysaccharide (LPS), lipid A and Bordetella pertussis LPS were compared by immunizing groups of mice subcutaneously with diphtheria and tetanus toxoid vaccine alone or mixed with one of the LPS derivatives. Five weeks later the mice were bled and the tetanus and diphtheria antibodies in the sera were measured. All the LPS derivatives efficiently increased the antibody responses when compared to the vaccine alone, but the mannose-rich O-6,7 LPS and lipid A were significantly more potent than O-4,5,12 LPS and B. pertussis LPS. We conclude that the quality of the O antigen influences the adjuvant activity of LPS.     

In vitro immunization of human lymphocytes. I. Production of human monoclonal antibodies against bombesin and tetanus toxoid

A procedure for in vitro sensitization of human lymphocytes against bombesin conjugated to tetanus toxoid (BTT) is described. Bombesin is a tetradecapeptide associated with small cell lung carcinoma. We found that antibody responses against bombesin as well as tetanus toxoid could be generated in vitro by culturing nylon-separated human splenic lymphocytes for 6 days with lipopolysaccharide, phytohemagglutinin-activated lymphocyte supernatants, human AB serum, and bombesin conjugated to tetanus toxoid. Cells sensitized by this procedure were fused to murine myeloma cells, NS-1. The specificities of resulting hybrids were analyzed by enzyme-linked immunoassays and competitive inhibition experiments. Hybrids secreting anti-bombesin (IgM) or anti-tetanus toxoid (IgM or IgG) were obtained. The ratio of IgG to IgM antibodies against tetanus toxoid could be increased by using antigen coupled to Sepharose beads. The sensitization procedure described here offers a system for the study of antigenic stimulation of human B lymphocytes in vitro and for the production of human monoclonal antibodies with the desired specificities.     

Adjuvant properties of bacterial product cantastim

Aluminum compounds have been used as adjuvants in practical vaccination for more than 60 years to induce an early, an efficient and a long lasting protective immunity. Nowadays they are the most widely used adjuvants in both veterinary and human vaccines. Unfortunately these adjuvants do not only cause undesirable side effects, but often induce T-helper type 2 (Th2)-biased responses. In this study we investigated the ability of the bacterial product CANTASTIM (CS) to augment the immune responses to a model antigen, tetanus toxoid (TT). Immunization of mice with TT+CS elicited higher anti-TT IgG antibody levels as compared to mice that received TT alone. Moreover, treatment with TT+CS resulted in a lower IgG1/IgG2a ratio and a stronger in vitro IFN-gamma synthesis by splenocytes and T cells cocultured with macrophages. These data suggest that CS can be used to enhance the magnitude of the immune response and to skew it towards the Th1 type.     

Use of adsorbed diphtheria-tetanus (DT) toxoid containing different doses of antigens in booster immunizations of children

To decrease the antigenic load in booster immunizations of children against diphtheria and tetanus, the immunological effectiveness and reactogenicity of different doses of both antigens (i. e 1 Lf and 1 BU; 2.5 Lf and 2.5 BU; 5 Lf and 5 BU) were studied. The study revealed that all these doses of the preparation were practically nonreactogenic: the total of systemic reactions was 0.9%. The study of the immunological effectiveness of adsorbed DT toxoid with reduced antigen content revealed the advantage of the commercial dose of the preparation (5 Lf of diphtheria antigen and 5 BU of tetanus antigen) over such doses of diphtheria and tetanus antigens as, respectively, 1 Lf and 1 BU; 2.5 Lf and 2.5 BU. Still, this advantage disappeared as early as 6 months after booster immunization. The results of these investigations indicate that booster immunization of children aged 6 years and over may be made with lower doses of adsorbed DT toxoid with reduced antigen content.