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Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine, 2021 Introduction: Traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI), as a dangerous central nervous system damage, continues to threaten communities by imposing various disabilities and costs.
Mahmoud Yousefifard +7 more
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Passive immunization of the human vagina
Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2022 The vagina is an excellent site for topical passive immunization, as access is relatively easy, and it is an enclosed space that has been shown to retain bioactive antibodies for several hours.
Deborah J. Anderson
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IgY - turning the page toward passive immunization in COVID-19 infection (Review)
Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine, 2020 The world is facing one of the major outbreaks of viral infection of the modern history, however, as vaccine development workflow is still tedious and can not control the infection spreading, researchers are turning to passive immunization as a good and ...
C. Constantin +4 more
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Antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 and their potential for therapeutic passive immunization
eLife, 2020 We review aspects of the antibody response to SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of the COVID-19 pandemic. The topics we cover are relevant to immunotherapy with plasma from recovered patients, monoclonal antibodies against the viral S-protein, and soluble ...
P. Klasse, John P. Moore
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MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 2023 Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the leading cause of hospitalization among U.S. infants. In July 2023, the Food and Drug Administration approved nirsevimab, a long-acting monoclonal antibody, for passive immunization to prevent RSV-associated lower ...
Jefferson M. Jones +10 more
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The biophysical principles underpinning muco-trapping functions of antibodies
Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2022 In addition to the classical immunological functions such as neutralization, antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity, and complement activation, IgG antibodies possess a little-recognized and under-utilized effector function at mucosal surfaces ...
Alison Schaefer, Samuel K. Lai
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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2018 New therapies are needed to prevent and treat Clostridium difficile infection and to limit the rise in antibiotic resistance. Besides toxins, several surface components have been characterized as colonization factors and have been shown as immunogenic ...
Séverine Péchiné +3 more
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Care and COVID 19: Lessons for liberals and neoliberals
Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract Within the liberal political traditions, care is regarded as a private matter, a problem of ethics rather than justice. Social justice is framed as an issue of economics (re/distribution), culture (recognition) and/or politics (representation).
Kathleen Lynch
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Using Monoclonal Antibodies to Prevent Mucosal Transmission of Epidemic Infectious Diseases
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 1999 Passive immunization with antibodies has been shown to prevent a wide variety of diseases. Recent advances in monoclonal antibody technology are enabling the development of new methods for passive immunization of mucosal surfaces.
Larry Zeitlin +2 more
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Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2023 New technologies for the prevention of infectious diseases are emerging to address unmet medical needs, in particular, the use of long-acting monoclonal antibodies (mAb) to prevent Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) lower respiratory tract disease in ...
Catherine Weil-Olivier +7 more
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