adjuvant in Podcasts
productA substance that enhances the immune response when added to vaccines.
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The Complete History of Tetanus — The Disease That Breaks Spines 🦠 | Boring History for Sleep
The mechanism by which alum and other aluminium salts enhance immune responses, a phenomenon now called adjuvancy, from the Latin for helping, was not well understood at the time and remains only partially elucidated today, which is actually somewhat embarrassing given that aluminium salts have been in vaccines for nearly a century and are the most widely used adjuvants in the world.