Overview

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.

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Author:   Kathleen Hefferon (University of Toronto, Canada) ,  Rima Menassa (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Canada) ,  Karen McDonald (University of California, Davis, USA) ,  Shawn Chen (Arizona State University, USA)
Publisher:   CABI Publishing
Imprint:   CABI Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 17.20cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   0.590kg
ISBN:  

9781780643434

ISBN 10:   1780643438
Pages:   180
Publication Date:   29 October 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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

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

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