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multivalent

[¦məl·tə′vā·lənt]
(chemistry)
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In host vaccinated with multivalent vaccine, each immunogen is processed and recognized by its specific immunocytes (B cells and Th cells) for induction of immunoprophylaxis against the respective diseases.
(7,21) The current study quantitatively and qualitatively assesses the safety, immunogenicity and efficacy profiles of the monovalent and multivalent LB vaccines from the available clinical trials, in the hope this may assist in the development of future vaccines for the human disease.
Various subclasses of analytic and univalent or multivalent functions were studied in many papers (see, e.g., [2-4]).
The company's novel Azymetric, AlbuCORE, and EFECT platforms, its Zymelink conjugation platform and cytotoxins, and its proprietary ZymeCAD structure-guided protein engineering technology, enable the development of highly potent bi-specific antibodies, multivalent protein therapeutics, and antibody drug conjugates across a range of indications.
The grant will fund a project entitled IMMUNOSHAPE which aims to train a new generation of scientists capable of applying state of the art synthesis and screening technology to develop new lead structures for highly selective glycan based multivalent immunotherapeutics for the treatment of cancer, autoimmune diseases and allergy.
"It cannot be solved by government alone because of the multivalent nature of this crime, which is carried out through internet service providers and transacted using financial institutions, and which needs to be combated with effective information campaigns in schools, churches, and media."
The concern of this work is the inter-cultural circulation of images, or, as editors Spyer (Leiden U., the Netherlands) and Steedly (Harvard U., US) write in their introduction, about the "set of propositions about affect, agency, circulation, and spectatorship implied by the multivalent, troubling notion of 'images that move'" through both space and time.
But this is a significant first step in the design of a multivalent vaccine against several autism-related gut bacteria, he said.
Or, as Jonathan Scott notes, Medina's work is "pluralistic and multivalent because the reality he lives in is pluralistic and multivalent." Medina's poems demonstrate an adroit, politically conscious, stylistically inventive hand in reflecting upon and depicting an ever-shifting (slightly) political, economic, and racial landscape, and are as subtle, manipulative, dangerous, hilarious, cocky, and dynamic as the worlds he invites readers to hear and see.
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