The potential adjuvanticity of quaternized chitosan hydrogel based microparticles for porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus inactivated vaccine.

Infectious diseases possess a big threat to the livestock industry worldwide. Currently, inactivated veterinary vaccines have attracted much attention to prevent infection due to their safer profile compared to live attenuated vaccine. However, its intrinsic poor immunogenicity demands the incorporation of an adjuvant.

[Cloning of human scFv against soman transition state analogues (P6) from a large phage antibody library].

Aim: To clone human anti-soman transition state analogues antibodies from a large single-chain phage antibody library.

Methods: An organophosphorus hapten P6 [O1-methyl-O2-(1, 2, 2-trimethylpropyl)-2-hydroxy-5-nitrophenyl methylphosphonic acid] was synthesized. Its chemical conjugate with bovine serum albumin (BSA) was used as antigen (P6-BSA) to screen antibodies against soman.

Detection of residual toxin in tissues of ricin-poisoned mice by sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and immunoprecipitation.

This work aimed to evaluate a method to detect the residual ricin in animal tissues. Immunoprecipitation and sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) were used to detect ricin in the tissues of intoxicated mice. The monoclonal antibodies (Mabs) 4C13 and 3D74 were used to assay the whole ricin molecules via sandwich ELISA.

A novel therapeutic approach to 6-OHDA-induced Parkinson's disease in rats via supplementation of PTD-conjugated tyrosine hydroxylase.

The present study aimed to evaluate whether the protein transduction domain (PTD)-conjugated human tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) fusion protein was effective on the 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA)-induced Parkinson's disease (PD) model rats. An expression vector pET-PTD-TH harbouring the PTD-TH gene was constructed and transformed to the Escherichia coli BL21 cells for expression. The expressed recombinant PTD-TH with a molecular weight of 61 kD was successfully transduced (1 microM) into the dopaminergic SH-sy5y human neuroblastoma cells in vitro and visualized by immunohistochemical assay.