Enhancing Specific-Antibody Production to the ragB Vaccine with GITRL That Expand Tfh, IFN-γ⁺ T Cells and Attenuates Porphyromonas gingivalis Infection in Mice

• Dong Zheng ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Dong Zheng, Qiang Sun

  Affiliation Department of Immunology, Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, PR China

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• Qiang Sun ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Dong Zheng, Qiang Sun

  Affiliation Department of Immunology, Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, PR China

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• Zhaoliang Su,

  Affiliation Department of Immunology, Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, PR China

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• Fanzhi Kong,

  Affiliation Affiliated People’s Hospital of Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, PR China

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• Xiaoju Shi,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Medway School of Pharmacy, University of Kent, Kent, United Kingdom

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• Jia Tong,

  Affiliation Department of Immunology, Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, PR China

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• Pei Shen,

  Affiliation Department of Immunology, Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, PR China

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• Tianqing Peng,

  Affiliation Critical Illness Research, Lawson Health Research Institute, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

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• Shengjun Wang ,

  * E-mail: xuhx@ujs.edu.cn (HX); sjwjsu@yahoo.com.cn (SJW)

  Affiliation Department of Immunology, Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, PR China

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• Huaxi Xu

  * E-mail: xuhx@ujs.edu.cn (HX); sjwjsu@yahoo.com.cn (SJW)

  Affiliation Department of Immunology, Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, PR China

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