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IMMUNOGEN [4 records]

Record 1 2013-09-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Immunology
DEF

Any agent, as a drug, capable of provoking an immune response or immunity.

CONT

It is generally accepted that, to be an effective immunogen, a drug must have a molecular weight >4000 or, for polypeptides, have at least 7 amino acids.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Immunologie
DEF

Substance capable d'entraîner une réponse immunitaire.

OBS

C'est en général une protéine ou un polysaccharide de poids moléculaire élevé, considéré par l'organisme comme étranger à lui-même et qui entraîne une réponse immunitaire.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Inmunología
DEF

Antígeno que por sí sólo es capaz de inducir una respuesta inmune específica.

OBS

No confundir con antígeno, un antígeno no siempre genera una respuesta inmune, mientras que un inmunógeno siempre produce una respuesta inmune.

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Record 2 2006-11-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Immunology
DEF

The anaphylactic state produced in an individual by the injection of a foreign immunogen.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Immunologie

Spanish

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Record 3 2006-05-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Immunology
DEF

An antigen used to introduce tolerance, particularly a form of antigen(usually a soluble form) that induces tolerance, as distinguished from an immunogen, another form(usually an insoluble form) that induces immunity.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Immunologie
OBS

Antigène qui donne lieu à un phénomène de tolérance immunitaire.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Inmunología
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Record 4 1999-09-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Biotechnology
  • Immunology
CONT

Therapeutic vaccination while the virus is well suppressed with antiretrovirals. In one study, first reported last summer at Geneva and with new data last week at the Retroviruses conference, volunteers whose viral load had been effectively suppressed with antiretrovirals were also given a killed-virus immunogen(the Remune(TM) therapeutic vaccine, which was developed by the late Dr. Jonas Salk) ;a control group was given the inactive component of the same vaccine but without the HIV. T-helper responses like those of long-term nonprogressors returned in most of those given the real vaccine--and in none of the control group.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Biotechnologie
  • Immunologie
CONT

L'idée de stimuler le système immunitaire pour s'opposer à la multiplication des cellules cancéreuses date des travaux de l'allemand Paul Ehrlich, au début du siècle [...]Mais ce n'est que vers les années quatre-vingt que le concept a commencé à être mis en pratique avec des méthodes modernes chez l'homme par injection de cytokines telles que l'interleulike 2 et l'interféron alpha, puis par introduction des gènes codant ces molécules dans les cellules cancéreuses, et dernièrement par «vaccination thérapeutique», une immunothérapie qui cherche à induire des réponses immunitaires cytotoxiques et mémorisables, contre les antigènes portés par les cellules tumorales.

Spanish

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