The quality of an allergen vaccine is a measure of the complexity of the composition, including the concentration of the various constituents. That is, the presence or absence of individual constituents determines the quality. Only selected constituents (i.e., the major allergens or other marker proteins) can be quantified independently. The complexity of the composition of allergen vaccines can be assessed by several techniques. These are standard separation techniques in biochemistry and traditional immunochemistry. (more…)
Having determined an adequate potency and complexity in composition, an allergen vaccine may still be deficient in the content of m ...
The potency of an allergen vaccine is the total allergen activity (that is, the sum of the contribution to allergenic activity from ...
Allergen vaccines are complex mixtures of antigenic components produced by the extraction of naturally occurring source materia ...
The production of allergen vaccines imposes a number of constraints on both the selection of source materials and the physicoch ...
Being an immunological disease, the characteristics of allergy are those of specificity and memory. Regardless of whether the c ...