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NALT Concept Space
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Concept information

  1. Research, Technology, Methods
  2. drugs
  3. vaccines
  4. synthetic vaccines
  5. virus-like particle vaccines

Preferred term

virus-like particle vaccines

Type

  • Chemical

Definition

  • Information Vaccines using supra-molecular structures composed of multiple copies of recombinantly expressed viral structural proteins. They are often antigentically indistinguishable from the virus from which they were derived.

    Source: Medical Subject Headings 2013

    Type: Concept definition

Broader concept

Related concepts

Synonyms

  • VLP vaccines

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URI

https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/198204

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