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Plantibodies - An Overview
Manu Narayan, G Nagaraja Rao, Navin Ingle, Sabyasachi Saha
Department of Preventive & Community Dentistry, Sardar Patel Institute of Dental & Medical Sciences, Lucknow (U.P.), India
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The use of plants for medicinal purposes dates back thousands of years but genetic engineering of plants to produce desired biopharmaceuticals is much more recent. Plant-derived biopharmaceuticals are cheap to produce and store, easy to scale up for mass production, and safer than those derived from animals. Dental caries vaccine produced in plants is a safe and effective approach towards providing long-term protection, for up to a year and is applied topically. The development of this vaccine has been made possible by recent advances in molecular biology and genetic engineering.
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