Obesity vaccines

Prophylactic and therapeutic vaccines for obesity

Chronic diseases such as obesity and diabetes are major causes of death and disability throughout the world. Many causes are known to trigger these chronic diseases, and infectious agents such as viruses are also pathological factors. In particular, it is considered that adenovirus 36 infections may be associated with obesity. If this is the case, a vaccine against adenovirus 36 may be a form o...

Influenza and obesity: will vaccines and antivirals protect?

There is a worldwide pandemic of obesity. The World Health Organization estimates 500 million adults and almost 43 million children under the age of 5 years to be obese (body mass index .30) [1]. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly one-third of the adult US population is obese. Obesity has been definitively linked to a wide range of comorbidities, including incre...

Green revolution vaccines, edible vaccines

Edible vaccines are sub-unit vaccines where the selected genes are introduced into the plants and the transgenic plant is then induced to manufacture the encoded protein. Edible vaccines are mucosal targeted vaccines where stimulation of both systematic and mucosal immune network takes place. Foods under study include potatoes, bananas, lettuce, rice, wheat, soybean, corn and legumes. Edible va...

STUDIES ON HEPATITIS B VACCINES

HBs vaccines were prepared by three different methods: 1) Heat inactivation (Krugman, et.al 1971)2) Ammonium sulphate precipitation followed by column chromatography (Sephadex G-200) 3) PEG-6000 (polyethylene glycol) precipitation followed by column chromatography using Sephadex G-200. Their efficacy was studied in guinea pigs, and the results compared with commercial Japanese vaccine (Gr...

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