Plant-derived Pharmaceuticals

Principles and Applications for Developing Countries

AvKathleen Hefferon

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

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Beskrivning

Describing recent developments in the engineering and generation of plants as production platforms for biopharmaceuticals, this book includes both vaccines and monoclonal antibodies. It has a particular emphasis on targeting diseases which predominate in less developed countries, encompassing the current state of technologies and describing expression systems and applications. This book also includes a variety of vaccine case studies, protecting against pervasive infectious diseases such as rabies, influenza and HIV.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2014-10-29
Mått:172 x 244 x 16 mm
Vikt:590 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:CABI Biotechnology Series
Antal sidor:180
Förlag:CABI Publishing
ISBN:9781780643434

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Kathleen L Hefferon, Visiting scientist, University of Toronto, Canada

Innehållsförteckning

1: Introduction, and the Promise of a Plant-derived Vaccine for Hepatitis B Virus 2: Protein Body-inducing Fusions for Recombinant Protein Production in Plants 3: Expression of Recombinant Proteins in Plant Cell Culture 4: Plant-derived Monoclonal Antibodies as Human Biologics for Infectious Disease and Cancer 5: Plant-produced Virus-like Particles 6: Expression of the Capsid Protein of Human Papillomavirus in Plants as an Alternative for the Production of Vaccines 7: Patenting of Plant-made Recombinant Pharmaceuticals and Access in the Developing World 8: Case Study 1: Rabies 9: Case Study 2: Plant-made HIV Vaccines and Neutralizing Antibodies 10: Case Study 3: The Search for a Plant-made Vaccine for Pandemic Influenza Virus