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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
2000-6-6
pubmed:abstractText
Immunological, immunocytochemical and fertility analyses were performed to determine the potential toxic side effects of porcine zona pellucida (pZP) vaccinations on target animals, including horses and dogs. The study was designed to determine the effect of antibodies, raised against highly purified pZP, on somatic tissues. Immunocytochemical studies performed with fixed tissues showed that rabbit anti-pZP antiserum did not crossreact with brain, heart, lung, kidney, liver, bladder, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, muscle, skin, spleen, pancreas, or lymph node of either the dog or horse. To determine the effect or oral intake on nontarget animals, female rabbits were fed a contraceptive vaccine containing pZP glycoproteins and the synthetic trehalose dicorynomycolate in drakeol (S-TDCM) adjuvant. Enzyme-linked immunoadsorbent assay (LISA) analyses showed that rabbits fed with the adjuvanted pZP proteins did not develop circulating anti-pZP IgG antibodies that crossreacted with pZP. Furthermore, fertility studies performed on rabbits fed with adjuvanted pZP revealed no significant differences in the number of embryos or stage of the embryos produced between the treated and control animals. Results of these studies suggest that the pZP vaccine delivered to dogs or horses in field studies have no recognizable somatic tissue effects. Moreover, there were no side effects on nontarget animals should they eat the vaccine. This substantiates field trials results about the safety of the pZP immunocontraceptive vaccine.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0022-104X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
1
pubmed:volume
286
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
641-6
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:10766973-Adjuvants, Immunologic, pubmed-meshheading:10766973-Administration, Oral, pubmed-meshheading:10766973-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:10766973-Antibody Formation, pubmed-meshheading:10766973-Contraception, Immunologic, pubmed-meshheading:10766973-Cord Factors, pubmed-meshheading:10766973-Cross Reactions, pubmed-meshheading:10766973-Dogs, pubmed-meshheading:10766973-Egg Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:10766973-Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay, pubmed-meshheading:10766973-Female, pubmed-meshheading:10766973-Fertility, pubmed-meshheading:10766973-Horses, pubmed-meshheading:10766973-Immunoenzyme Techniques, pubmed-meshheading:10766973-Immunoglobulin G, pubmed-meshheading:10766973-Membrane Glycoproteins, pubmed-meshheading:10766973-Rabbits, pubmed-meshheading:10766973-Receptors, Cell Surface, pubmed-meshheading:10766973-Swine, pubmed-meshheading:10766973-Vaccines, pubmed-meshheading:10766973-Zona Pellucida
pubmed:year
2000
pubmed:articleTitle
Evaluation of somatic and reproductive immunotoxic effects of the porcine zona pellucida vaccination.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Large Animal Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602-7385, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article