“…Forty-one compounds showed protective efficacy similar or superior to that of alum on the basis of survival rates (Table 2). These 41 hit compounds comprised 18 totally novel adjuvant candidates, 15 novel adjuvant candidates for the influenza vaccine with previously reported adjuvant effects for other antigens but not for the influenza vaccine, and 8 previously reported adjuvant candidates for the influenza vaccine (Tables 1 and 2), namely β-cyclodextrin [30,31], poly-L-γ-glutamic acid sodium salt [32,33], polyvinylpyrrolidone (MW 3,600,000) [34], pullulan [35], riboflavin [36], saponin [37][38][39], sepiolite [40], and sodium alginate 80-120 [41] (Table 1, Figure 1, and Table S1). a Six-week-old BALB/c mice were intramuscularly immunized with the indicated immunogens (100 µL) twice at a two-week interval.…”