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RSS FeedsNanocurcumin enhances BCG vaccine efficacy
(World News Science)

 
 

21 september 2019 16:35:41

 
Nanocurcumin enhances BCG vaccine efficacy
(World News Science)
 


A study carried out on mice models has found that curcumin in nanoparticle form has the potential to enhance the efficacy of BCG vaccine such that it confers protection against adult pulmonary TB. The researchers found that injecting curcumin nanoparticles soon after vaccinating the mice with BCG produced an appreciable enhancement of immune memory cells (T central memory cells) responsible for long-term protection against TB infection. BCG vaccine is effective against disseminated and meningeal TB in young children. But the protection does not last for long as the host-protective immune responses that the vaccine induces...


 
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