{"id":85596,"date":"2020-07-21T12:58:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T07:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=16469"},"modified":"2020-07-21T12:58:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T07:28:00","slug":"coronavirus-oxford-vaccine-triggers-immune-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/coronavirus-oxford-vaccine-triggers-immune-response\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: Oxford vaccine triggers immune response"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong>The human trial of COVID-19 vaccine named <strong>ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine<\/strong> developed by the University of Oxford and backed by AstraZeneca Plc has shown a positive result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>How was the vaccine produced? <\/strong>The vaccine was made from a genetically engineered virus(adenovirus) that causes the common cold in chimpanzees.<ul><li>However, the virus was heavily modified so that it cannot cause infections in people and look a bit like the coronavirus that produces spike protein that the virus uses to enter and infect human cells.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>What was the response? <\/strong>The first phase of clinical trials did not prompt any serious side effects and produced antibodies and T-cells that can fight coronavirus.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Antibodies: <\/strong>It is a protective protein produced by the immune system in order to attack antigens.Antigen is a toxin or other foreign substance which induces an immune response in the body.<\/li><li><strong>T-cells<\/strong>: It is a type of white blood cell that helps coordinate the immune system and are able to spot which of the body&#8217;s cells have been infected and destroy them.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The human trial of COVID-19 vaccine named ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and backed by AstraZeneca Plc has shown a positive result. Facts: How was the vaccine produced? The vaccine was made from a genetically engineered virus(adenovirus) that causes the common cold in chimpanzees. However, the virus was heavily modified&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/coronavirus-oxford-vaccine-triggers-immune-response\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Coronavirus: Oxford vaccine triggers immune response<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[2981,2982],"class_list":["post-85596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-covid-vaccine","tag-oxford","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704761825},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}