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The Hen’s Egg Test on Chorioallantoic Membrane

2016; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 35; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1177/1091581816672187

1092-874X

Alexander Batista-Duharte, Gisela Jorge Murillo, Ulpiano Pérez, Enieyis Tur, Deivys Fuentes Portuondo, Bruno Martínez-Leo, Damiana Téllez-Martínez, Juan E. Betancourt, Oliver Pérez,

T-cell and B-cell Immunology

Local reactions are the most frequent adverse event associated with vaccines. Adjuvants are major constituents of many vaccines and they are frequently involved in these reactions, associated with their irritating effect and the stimulation of local inflammation. The hen's egg test on chorioallantoic membrane (HET-CAM) is an alternative toxicological method widely used to determine ocular irritation potential, but very few studies have demonstrated the utility of this method for assessing the irritant properties of vaccine adjuvants. In this work, known/experimental adjuvants were evaluated by both HET-CAM and an in vivo local toxicity study in mice to compare irritation scores to determine whether there was a correlation (Pearson test). Based on these data (r = 0.9034; P < 0.0001), the HET-CAM assay can be used as an alternate method for the prediction of the local toxicity potential of adjuvant candidates to be used in vaccines.