Biopharmaceuticals in plants
Subtitle: toward the next century of medicine
By: Kathleen Laura Hefferon.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Boca Raton
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781439804742
Subjects: Biological products; Transgenic plants; Plant genetic regulation; Pharmaceutical technology; Biological Products; Plants, Genetically Modified -- metabolism; Gene Expression Regulation, Plant; Plant Extracts; Technology, Pharmaceutical
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: History of plants in production of biopharmaceuticals; title: Transgenic plants expressing vaccine and therapeutic proteins; title: Chloroplast engineering and production of biopharmaceuticals; title: Plant viral expression vectors and production of biopharmaceuticals in plants; title: Glycosylation of therapeutic proteins in plants; title: Scale-up of plant-derived pharmaceuticals : the prospects for commerical production and for global health; title: The immune response to plant-derived biopharmaceuticals; title: Risk analysis and safety of plant-made biopharmaceuticals.