Dendritic cells are the most potent antigen-presenting cells, and are critical for the generation of an antigen-specific immune response and protective immunity. These unique features have been applied to dendritic cell-based immunization in a number of disease conditions. Our published results have demonstrated that the immunity induced by intranasal immunization with DNA-transfected dendritic cells results in reduced fungal burden, and alleviated lung tissue damage in a mouse model of pulmonary fungal infection. In this article, approaches for the preparation and characterization of DNA-transfected dendritic cells and intranasal immunization in mice are described.
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Awasthi, S. (2017). Intranasal antifungal vaccination using DNA-transfected dendritic cells. In Methods in Molecular Biology (Vol. 1625, pp. 75–83). Humana Press Inc. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7104-6_6
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