PREVENTING AND TREATING DISEASE Flashcards
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What are clinical trials?
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Test potential new drugs on healthy and patient volunteers.
2
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What are hybridomas?
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Cells created during the production of monoclonal antibodies by the fusion of an antibody-specific lymphocyte and a tumour cell.
3
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What is a placebo?
A
A medicine that does not contain the active drug being tested, used in clinical trials of new medicines.
4
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What is preclinical testing?
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Is carried out on a potential new medicine in a laboratory using cells, tissues and live animals.
5
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What is a vaccine?
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Dead or inactive pathogenic material used in vaccination to develop immunity to a disease in a healthy person.
