Uniform-sized water-in-oil vaccine formulations enhance immune response against Newcastle disease and avian influenza in chickens

摘要

Water-in-oil (W/O) emulsion is one of the best "one-shot" delivery system for antigen to generate high and durable antibody response. Here a facile method using premixed Shirasu Porous Glass (SPG) membrane emulsification technique was employed to fabricate uniform-sized emulsion and mechanical stirring was employed to prepare non-uniform-sized emulsion as control. In release kinetics studies, uniform-sized emulsion showed low initial release, and during the followed 17 days, uniform-sized emulsions released antigen faster than emulsions of non-uniform size. In addition, vaccination studies against Newcastle disease virus (NDV) and avian Influenza virus (AIV) demonstrated that emulsion of uniform size induced higher HI antibodies and antigen-specific IgG titers. Furthermore, chickens vaccinated with emulsion of uniform size had a significantly greater ratio of CD8(+)T cells to CD4(+)T cells and a higher percentage of CD8(+)CD4(+)T cells. Taken together, these results indicated that emulsion of uniform size induced a more potent immune response than emulsion prepared by mechanical stirring, and warranted the use of SPG membrane emulsification technique in generating new avian vaccines. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.