Molecular Farming for Plants and Animals for Human and Veterinary Medicine
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Author(s): L. Erickson et al. (Eds)
Publisher: Kluwer
ISBN: 140200835X
Format: hardback
374pp
Price: £96.00, $144.00, €150
Review Date: 22 October 2002
Review: This book presents a review of biofarming strategies to provide safer and cheaper health products. Topics for the 15 chapters include: tobacco as a bioreactor for large-scale production of biopharmaceutical recombinant proteins; alfalfa as a bioreactor for continuous recombinant protein production; viral vectors for making recombinant proteins in plants; producing biopharmaceuticals from milk; plant virus-base expression systems for producing HIV vaccines; suppression of autoimmune diabetics with transgenetic plants expressing autoantigens to induce oral tolerance; the production of therapeutic peptides in plants; an oral vaccine in maize plants; producing antibodies in alfalfa; and the immunotherapeutic potential of antibodies produced in chicken eggs.