Cancer patients in Therion's clinical trials receive a vaccine that contains a live but weakened virus that stimulates the body's immune system into making protective antibodies to fight off cancer cells.
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Mindful that it takes two weeks for a flu shot to be fully effective _ the time it takes the body to build up protective antibodies _ doctors still feared that influenza could make an explosive debut.
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When extracts from the tobacco plants were put directly into the stomachs of mice, using tubes, the animals developed protective antibodies not only in their blood but also in the mucosal linings of their organs, the researchers said.
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Three doses of live-attenuated OPV produce protective antibody to all three poliovirus types in more than 95 % of recipients . and in 1958 it was selected, in competition with the live vaccines of Koprowski and other researchers, by the US National Institutes of Health.
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The Salk vaccine, or inactivated poliovirus vaccine ( IPV ), is based on poliovirus grown in a type of monkey kidney tissue culture ( vero cell injection ), 90 % or more of individuals develop protective antibody to all three serotypes of poliovirus, and at least 99 % are immune to poliovirus following three doses.
