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Immunization
Reports from Baylor College of Medicine, College of Medicine highlight recent research in immunization
April 28th, 2009
According to a study from the United States, "Virus-like particles (VLPs) have gained increasing interest for their use as vaccines due to their repetitive antigenic that is capable of efficiently activating the immune system. The efficacy of VLP immunization may lie in its ability to traffic into draining lymph nodes while activating antigen-presenting cells to initiate the orchestration of signals required for the development of a robust immune response." "Currently, there is no comprehensive study showing the correlation of different VLP vaccination routes to immune outcome. In this study, we took an optical imaging approach to directly visualize the trafficking of...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2009-04-28)
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