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Article: Antigen take-up discovery could benefit vaccine design.
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- BioWorld International
- Article date:
- May 2, 2007
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LONDON -- The type of immune response triggered by an antigen is determined at the moment the antigen encounters cells of the immune system, a team of researchers working in Germany has shown.
This new understanding of how the immune system triggers different types of response--whether directed at killing infected cells or leading to antibody production--could lead to more effective vaccines.
Sven Burgdorf, a junior research group leader working in the laboratory of Christian Kurts at the Institute of Molecular Medicine and Experimental Immunology at the Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Bonn, Germany, told BioWorld International: "We have found that the ...