Vaccine Development
Gene vaccines lead immune response reactions in the desired direction
Published in Gene Therapy Weekly, November 18th, 2004
According to recent research published in the journal Frontiers in Bioscience, "septic shock characterized by pro-inflammatory cytokine storm can be induced by a variety of microbial infections. Typical pro-inflammatory cytokines include tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha, interleukin (IL)-1 and IL-6. Although one or more of them is often expressed in any given microbial infection, usually it is the elevation of one cytokine that becomes predominant at a particular time in a given infection."
"Here we showed that administration of adenoviral antigens alone led to a...
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Source: Gene Therapy Weekly (2004-11-18)
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