Allergic Response
Cellular Factors Expand Grass Allergen Vaccine Effectiveness
Published in Vaccine Weekly, November 21st, 2001
The two cytokines, interferon (IFN)-gamma and interleukin (IL)-12, enhanced the benefits of grass allergen vaccines when administered alone or in combination in encoded plasmids (p), researchers at the University of South Florida reported in Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.
M. Kumar and associates used a murine model of Kentucky blue grass allergy to explore the added benefits of plasmid-based cytokine inoculation.
"Groups of naive B6D2F1 mice were vaccinated...
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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2001-11-21)
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