Existing approaches to toxoids like aflatoxin and ricin use specially built molecules where something immunoreactive is modified to be bonded to an antigen. A peptide vaccine that doesn’t require the chemistry would be pretty cool.
The vaccine for morphine works the same way. The immune system recognizes the opiate pharmacophore and binds to it, so that opiates don’t bind to their receptors and therefore, heroin rats don’t get high.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3558830/
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3979841/
Existing approaches to toxoids like aflatoxin and ricin use specially built molecules where something immunoreactive is modified to be bonded to an antigen. A peptide vaccine that doesn’t require the chemistry would be pretty cool.
The vaccine for morphine works the same way. The immune system recognizes the opiate pharmacophore and binds to it, so that opiates don’t bind to their receptors and therefore, heroin rats don’t get high. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3558830/