DNA Vaccines

Studies conducted at C.M. Chuang et al on DNA vaccines recently published

Published in Vaccine Weekly, September 23rd, 2009

According to recent research from the United States, "It is important to develop innovative therapies for advanced stage cancers in addition to the conventional therapies including chemotherapy, radiation and surgery. Antigen-specific immunotherapy has emerged as a novel alternate therapy for advanced stage cancers, which may be employed in conjunction with conventional therapies."

"In the current study, we tested the effect of treatment with the chemotherapeutic agent, apigenin in combination with DNA vaccines encoding the HPV-16 E7 antigen linked to heat shock protein 70 (HSP70) in the control of the E7-expressing tumor, TC-1. We observed that treatment with apigenin...

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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2009-09-23)

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