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Flu Vaccines
New findings from University of Groningen in the area of flu vaccines published
March 12th, 2008
According to recent research published in the journal Vaccine, "In this paper we investigated to which part of the gastro-intestinal (GI) tract, the upper or Lower part, an oral influenza vaccine should be targeted to result in an effective immune response in mice. Our study demonstrates that without adjuvant substantial systemic but tow respiratory mucosal immune responses were induced in mice after delivery of influenza subunit vaccine to the upper GI-tract (intragastric) as well as the lower GI-tract (intracolonically)." "When the vaccine was adjuvanted with Escherichia coli heat-labile enterotoxin (LT) these responses were significantly enhanced....
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2008-03-12)
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