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Vaccine Targets Heart Disease
Summary: Essay discusses a vaccine that targets heart disease.
They have made a vaccine that would target heart disease. It raises high-density lipoprotein, which is (HDL) by 40%. That would lower the risk of cardiovascular disease. It changes the treatment for heart disease because it lowers arteries being clogged. This can help prevent the first and second time of having heart attacks. In 1994 they did a test on rabbits. They found that because the vaccine was of protein CEPT (cholesterol ester transfer protein) so the body does not want to reject it so the had to make changes that would fool the body so it would think it is foreign and try to get rid of it. The way they made the vaccine foreign to the body was to make it like a tetanus toxin. So that the immune system would see an intruder make antibody to get ride of it from the body. The vaccine may offer...
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