The nerve tissue vaccines are no longer available due to poor efficacy and life threatening
adverse effect of neuroparalytic reactions. The currently available vaccines are the modern tissue
culture vaccines (MTCV) and include Purified Chick Embryo Cell (PCEC) vaccine, Human
Diploid Cell Vaccine (HDCV), Purified Vero Cell Vaccine (PVRV), Purified Duck Embryo
Vaccine (PDEV). The vaccines are available in lyophilized form with sterile water as diluent, are
stable for 3 years at 2 to 8°C and should be used within 6 hours of reconstitution. All tissue
culture vaccines have almost equal efficacy and any one of these can be used. These vaccines
induce protective antibodies in more than 99% of vaccinees following pre/ post exposure
prophylaxis. The main adverse effects are local pain, swelling and redness and less commonly
fever, headache, dizziness and gastrointestinal side effects. Systemic hypersensitivity reactions in
vaccinees have been reported with HDCV particularly following booster injections but not with
PCEC/ PVRV. Intradermal vaccination may cause more local irritation as compared to the
intramuscular route. Along with proper wound care and rabies immunoglobulin (RIG) post
exposure prophylaxis is effective in preventing 100% of rabies cases. Failures occur due to delay
in initiation or non use of RIG when indicated.
nervous tissue
Nervous (nerve) tissue.
What does the nervous tissue do
nervous tissue
The nervous tissue.
Nervous system
The nervous tissue is responsible for carrying messages through your body. This tissue is made up of neurons that transmit electrical signals to communicate information between different parts of the body.
neurons are just the cells that make up the nervous tissue.
The unit of nervous tissue is called the neuron.
Nervous Tissue
Nervous tissue
Nervous tissue.