Prediction for Helper T Cell Epitopes and its Application in Vaccine Development against Parasite Infection / 中国寄生虫学与寄生虫病杂志

ABSTRACT

Cellular immunity plays an important role in defense against diseases, such as pathogenic infection,autoimmunity and tumor. With the progress of molecular immunology, mechanisms of T cellular immunity, and the T cell epitopes and functional genomics, studies on the prediction based on data-drived for T cell epitopes has been highlighted, and could be one of the useful tools for application in vaccine development. This review summarizes theory and methodology of prediction for helper T cell epitopes, and their application in vaccine development against parasites, and new research directions are also discussed.