Les auteurs d’un article récent s’intéressent aux mécanismes d’action de l’aluminium.

Abstract (début)
Many vaccines include aluminum salts (alum) as adjuvants despite little knowledge of alum’s functions. Host DNA rapidly coats injected alum. Here, we further investigated the mechanism of alum and DNA’s adjuvant function. Our data show that DNase coinjection reduces CD4 T-cell priming by i.m. injected antigen + alum (…)

Plus d’informations : McKee AS, Burchill MA, Munks MW et al. Host DNA released in response to aluminum adjuvant enhances MHC class II-mediated antigen presentation and prolongs CD4 T-cell interactions with dendritic cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013 Mar 19 ;110(12):E1122-31. doi : 10.1073/pnas.