id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-016268-xcx1c0da Sahai, Aastha Plant Edible Vaccines: A Revolution in Vaccination 2013-04-15 .txt text/plain 11291 593 47 Factors in favor of plant systems as sources of animal derived proteins include: the potential for large-scale, low-cost biomass production using agriculture; the low risk of product contamination by mammalian viruses, blood borne pathogens, oncogenes and bacterial toxins; the capacity of plant cells to correctly fold and assemble multimeric proteins; low downstream processing requirements for proteins administered orally in plant food or feed; the ability to introduce new or multiple transgenes by sexual crossing of plants; and the avoidance of ethical problems associated with transgenic animals and the use of animal materials (Doran 2000 ) . In parallel with evaluation of plant-derived Hepatitis B surface antigen, Mason and Arntzen explored plant expression of other vaccine candidates including the labile toxin B subunit (LT-B) of entertotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) and the capsid protein of Norwalk virus (NVCP). ./cache/cord-016268-xcx1c0da.txt ./txt/cord-016268-xcx1c0da.txt