Expression of the cholera toxin B subunit (CT-B) in maize seeds and a combined mucosal treatment against cholera and traveler's diarrhea

Plant Cell Reports

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 527-537

  Karaman, S ^a,b   Cunnick, J ^a   Wang, K ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PIONEER HI BRED INTERNATIONAL INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Cholera; ETEC; Maize; Plant derived vaccine; Subunit vaccine

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; BACTERIAL VACCINE; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; CHOLERA TOXIN; ENTEROTOXIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; HEAT LABILE ENTEROTOXIN, E COLI; HEAT-LABILE ENTEROTOXIN, E COLI;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BLOOD; CHOLERA; DIARRHEA; DRUG POTENTIATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; FEMALE; GENETICS; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOLOGY; MAIZE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; MUCOSAL IMMUNITY; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PLANT SEED; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BACTERIAL VACCINES; CHOLERA; CHOLERA TOXIN; DIARRHEA; DRUG SYNERGISM; ENTEROTOXINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FECES; FEMALE; IMMUNITY, MUCOSAL; IMMUNIZATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SEEDS; TRANSGENES; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; ZEA MAYS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; MUS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84856962442     PISSN: 07217714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-011-1146-3     Document Type: Article

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