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 Vaccine Detail
                          
                            | MVA-MUC1-IL2 Vaccine |  
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							  Vaccine Name: MVA-MUC1-IL2 VaccineTarget Pathogen: CancerTarget Disease: CancerVaccine Ontology ID: VO_0007428Type: OtherStatus: Clinical trialHost Species for Licensed Use: HumanHost Species as Laboratory Animal Model: HumanMUC1
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						Description: A bivalent cancer vaccine comprised of a modified vaccinia virus Ankara (MVA) strain encoding human mucin 1 (MUC1) and interleukin-2 (IL-2) with potential immunostimulating and antineoplastic activities. Originally developed for the eradication of smallpox, MVA is a highly attenuated and replication-defective strain incapable of virion assembly and exerts potent immunostimulatory activity against antigens. Vaccination with MVA-MUC1-IL2 vaccine may stimulate the host immune system to mount a humoral and cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) responses against tumor cells expressing MUC1, a tumor associated antigen, resulting in tumor cell lysis. Expression of IL-2 augments the specific CTL response against MUC1 expressing cells. (NCIT_C2241). |  
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                            | Hillman et al., 2017: Hillman GG, Reich LA, Rothstein SE, Abernathy LM, Fountain MD, Hankerd K, Yunker CK, Rakowski JT, Quemeneur E, Slos P. Radiotherapy and MVA-MUC1-IL-2 vaccine act synergistically for inducing specific immunity to MUC-1 tumor antigen. Journal for immunotherapy of cancer. 2017; 5; 4. [PubMed: 28116088]. NCIT_C2241:  [https://ncit.nci.nih.gov/ncitbrowser/ConceptReport.jsp?dictionary=NCI_Thesaurus&code=C2241] |  |