title: Monitoring of cellular responses after vaccination against tetanus toxoid: comparison of the measurement of IFN-gamma production by ELISA, ELISPOT, flow cytometry and real-time PCR.
abstract: One of the challenges for immunomonitoring in clinical trials is to detect an antigen specific T cell-mediated immune response. In an attempt to define the most suitable assay, tetanus toxoid was used to compare the capacity of 4 different methods to detect cytokine responses, before and after recall vaccination, in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) of 14 healthy volunteers. ELISA, ELISPOT, intracytoplasmic detection and real-time RT-PCR were chosen to measure IFN-gamma production before and after vaccination. As far as the detection of memory T cell status (before vaccination) was concerned, we found that ELISPOT was the most sensitive method to discriminate TT-induced from spontaneous responses. On the other hand, intracytoplasmic cytokine detection was the most efficient method to detect the restimulating effect of TT vaccination.
authors.affiliation: CYPRO SA, Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: Joël
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tassignon
authors.forename: Wivine
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Burny
authors.forename: Samira
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dahmani
authors.forename: Lin
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Patrick
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Stordeur
authors.forename: Baudouin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Byl
authors.forename: Donat
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: De Groote
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D015496:CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology*; D004797:Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay; D005260:Female; D005434:Flow Cytometry; D006801:Humans; D007156:Immunologic Memory; D007371:Interferon-gamma / Q000096:biosynthesis* / Q000097:blood / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015166:Monitoring, Immunologic / Q000379:methods*; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric; D013745:Tetanus Toxoid / Q000276:immunology*; D014611:Vaccination
chemical_list: D012333:RNA, Messenger; D013745:Tetanus Toxoid; D007371:Interferon-gamma