Anti-measles antibodies

I have been especially interested in that aspect of biological specificity that is involved in the mechanism of protection of the body against disease. When we first become infected with the measles virus, we become ill. After a few days, however, the protective mechanism of the body has come into operation, and we recover from the disease—the symptoms of the disease were the result of the multiplication of the molecules of measles virus within our body, and the recovery is the result of the development of a police force that stops this multiplication. This police force consists of special molecules, formed in the cells of the body, and circulating in the blood stream. These molecules are antibodies, anti-measles antibodies, with the specific property of being able to combine with the measles virus and to prevent its reduplication. Other diseases also lead to the development of special antibodies to counteract them, and even foreign proteins generally, whether they are harmful or not, cause this process of production of special antibodies to become operative. 

Measles virus hemagglutinin (H) protein Tobacco leaf Mice produced serum anti-H antibodies that neutralized measles virus in vitro. Immunogenic in mice when delivered orally or parenterally. 37, 38... 

Pool V, Braun MM, Kelso JM, Mootrey G, Chen RT, Yunginger JW, Jacobson RM, Gargiullo PM, VAERS Team. US Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System. Prevalence of anti-gelatin IgE antibodies in people with anaphylaxis after measles-mumps rubella vaccine in the United States. Pediatrics 2002 110(6) e71. 

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