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Edible Transgenic Plant Vaccines – An Overview and Update
Abstract: Normal 0 false false false EN-IN X-NONE X-NONE Plants are used as bioreactors to express antigenic molecules to be administered as vaccines. Edible transgenic plant vaccines (ETPV) are plant materials (recombinant protein subunit vaccines), and the edible plant tissue functions as an oral vaccine. ETPV are mucosal targeted vaccines where stimulation of both systematic and mucosal immune network takes place and these diminish the utilization of conventional animal or bacterial …
Published in Research and Reviews : A Journal of Biotechnology · Vol. 1, Issue 2, 2011 Read article