Engineering Venom’s Toxin-Neutralizing Antibody Fragments and Its Therapeutic Potential

Serum therapy remains the only specific treatment against envenoming, but anti-venoms are still prepared by fragmentation of polyclonal antibodies isolated from hyper-immunized horse serum. Most of these anti-venoms are considered to be efficient, but their production is tedious, and their use may...

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Main Authors: Larissa M. Alvarenga, Muhammad Zahid, Anne di Tommaso, Matthieu O. Juste, Nicolas Aubrey, Philippe Billiald, Julien Muzard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2014-08-01
Series:Toxins
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2072-6651/6/8/2541