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DNA Vaccines - Methods and Protocols (Hardcover, 2000 ed.) Loot Price: R6,034
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DNA Vaccines - Methods and Protocols (Hardcover, 2000 ed.): Douglas B. Lowrie, Robert Whalen

DNA Vaccines - Methods and Protocols (Hardcover, 2000 ed.)

Douglas B. Lowrie, Robert Whalen

Series: Methods in Molecular Medicine, 29

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The field of DNA vaccines has undergone explosive growth in the last few years. As usual, some historical precursors of this approach can be d- cerned in the scientific literature of the last decades. However, the present state of affairs appears to date from observations made discreetly in 1988 by Wolff, Malone, Felgner, and colleagues, which were described in a 1989 patent and published in 1990. Quite surprisingly, they showed that genes carried by pure plasmid DNA and injected in a saline solution, hence the epithet "naked DNA," could be taken up and expressed by skeletal muscle cells with a low but reproducible frequency. Such a simple methodology was sure to spawn many applications. In a separate and important line of experimentation, Tang, De Vit, and Johnston announced in 1992 that it was indeed possible to obtain humoral immune responses against proteins encoded by DNA delivered to the skin by a biolistic device, which has colloquially become known as the "gene gun. " The year 1993 saw the publication of further improvements in the me- ods of naked DNA delivery and, above all, the first demonstrations by several groups of the induction of humoral and cytotoxic immune responses to viral antigens expressed from injected plasmid DNA. In some cases, protection against challenge with the pathogen was obtained. The latter result was - questionably the touchstone of a method of vaccination worthy of the name.

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Imprint: HumanaPress
Country of origin: United States
Series: Methods in Molecular Medicine, 29
Release date: September 1999
First published: 2000
Editors: Douglas B. Lowrie • Robert Whalen
Dimensions: 235 x 155 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 529
Edition: 2000 ed.
ISBN-13: 978-0-89603-580-5
Categories: Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Pharmacology > General
Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Diseases & disorders > Immunology > General
Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Genetics (non-medical) > General
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Barcode: 9780896035805

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