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Published in Vaccine Weekly, February 16th, 2005
Study 1: Virosomes are finding use as carrier systems for cancer vaccines.
"HER-2/neu, a tumor-associated antigen (TAAg), plays a critical role in oncogenesis of various tumor types, and its selective overexpression by malignant tumor cells makes it an ideal target for immunotherapy. A prerequisite for clinical vaccines is the construction of safe and highly immunogenic reagents able to generate efficient immune responses against TAAg. Previous protein vaccines, consisting of the extracellular domain of HER-2/neu (pNeuECD), were shown to...
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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2005-02-16)
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