Guest guest Posted July 27, 2005 Report Share Posted July 27, 2005 If I recall, a toxoid is a molecule which is similar to a (protein) bacterial toxin, but inactive. Inoculation with a toxoid should provoke the production of antibodies which bind the actual bacterial toxin, thus preventing it from carrying out its toxic action (and marking it for phagocytotic destruction). This process ought to take awhile, I think, because the adaptive immune system does not kick into gear too fast. But I am not 100% certain how long it would take. Exposure to a new antigen requires days before a response, but in this case prior acquaintance with the epitopes might permit the body to react much faster (via epitope-specific memory T- cells). Ten minutes is pretty damn fast tho, I am unsure whether adaptive immunity can gear up that quickly. I am not sure what other avenues of fast activity might be possible. > Actually to give you an idea of the vaccine I put subdermally- while > flaring/feeling miserable it stopped me almost after 10 minutes.Th > effect sort of lasts the day and the preceeding days aren't as bad. > More later I'm out the door. > tony Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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