Abstract: International audience; The use of therapeutic proteins induces in some patients the appearance of neutralizing antibodies. This is the case of pro-coagulant factor VIII (FVIII) used in patients with hemophilia A. Several parameters related to the protein itself, to the type of pathology or to the patients, condition the immunogenicity of a therapeutic protein. Understanding these parameters would help to anticipate or prevent the development of neutralizing antibodies. In the case of FVIII, we propose that the development of neutralizing antib...
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Immunology
Molecular biology