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Edible vaccines

by orbachr, May 25, 2007 12:00AM
Hello,

I am writing a work on plant-based edible vaccines for allergy. During my research I saw that these days immunotherapy is based on injections with raising amounts of allergens. However, I saw that edible vaccines, which are suppose to be an excellent tool for immunization, are suppose to work from the Mucosal system with constant amounts of allergen in the plant. How can it be that by injection I have to use raising amounts of allergen while by edible vaccines I have to use constant amounts of allergen (although it is much larger amount from injection)?


Ron
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by promethius, May 29, 2007 12:00AM
And to add to that puzzle, why is it that when edibile vaccines are given to autoimmune sufferers (containing the auto-antigens) there is a decrease in the immune response (leading to improvement), rather than an increase?
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