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Immunostimulatory Agent Evaluation: Lymphoid Tissue Extraction and Injection Route-Dependent Dendritic Cell Activation
Published on: September 16, 2018
From injection to inhalation: A STING-activating mucosal adjuvant reprograms vaccination
Weijie Wang1, Muzhuo Wang1, Lu Lu1
1Department of Pharmacology and the Key Laboratory of Smart Drug Delivery, Ministry of Education, School of Pharmacy, Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Virology (MOE/NHC/CAMS), Shanghai Institute of Infectious Disease and Biosecurity, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Shanghai Fifth People's Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Clinical and Translational Medicine
|August 26, 2026
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