Plant-derived pharmaceuticals : principles and applications for developing countries /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2014.
• Series: CABI biotechnology series ; 2.
• Subjects: Materia medica, Vegetable > Developing countries.; Medicinal plants > Biotechnology > Developing countries.; Pharmaceutical biotechnology > Developing countries.; Vaccines > Biotechnology > Developing countries.; Monoclonal antibodies > Biotechnology > Developing countries.; Research.; Pesticides and Drugs; Control, (New March 2000); Pesticides and Drugs; Chemistry and Formulation, (New March 2000); Non-food/Non-feed Plant Products.; Prion, Viral, Bacterial and Fungal Pathogens of Humans, (New March 2000); Human diseases.; Infectious diseases.; Medicinal plants.; Plant proteins.; Vaccines.
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This book describes the most recent research involving the generation of vaccines and other therapeutic proteins for combating infectious diseases which predominate in developing countries.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction, and the Promise of a Plant-derived Vaccine for Hepatitis B Virus / Kathleen L. Hefferon
• Protein Body-inducing Fusions for Recombinant Protein Production in Plants / Sonia Gutiérrez and Rima Menassa
• Expression of Recombinant Proteins in Plant Cell Culture / Somen Nandi and Karen A. McDonald
• Plant-derived Monoclonal Antibodies as Human Biologics for Infectious Disease and Cancer / Qiang Chen and Huafang Lai
• Plant-produced Virus-like Particles / Ann E. Meyers, Edward P. Rybicki and Inga I. Hitzeroth
• Expression of the Capsid Protein of Human Papillomavirus in Plants as an Alternative for the Production of Vaccines / José Francisco Castillo Esparza, Alberto Monroy García and Miguel Angel Gómez Lim
• Patenting of Plant-made Recombinant Pharmaceuticals and Access in the Developing World / Pascal M.W. Drake, Sonia Sadone and Harry Thangaraj
• Case Study 1 : Rabies / Elizabeth Loza-Rubio and Edith Rojas-Anaya
• Case Study 2 : Plant-made HIV Vaccines and Neutralizing Antibodies / Carla Marusic and Marcello Donini
• Case Study 3 : The Search for a Plant-made Vaccine for Pandemic Influenza Virus / Kathleen L. Hefferon.