No vaccine yet developed had managed to produce a ' neutralizing antibody ' response in the body.
Neutralizing antibody to hepatitis A virus in immune serum globulin and in the sera of human recipients of immune serum globulin.
A direct correlation between survival and neutralizing antibody titer was found.
The importance of neutralizing antibodies in containing primary viremia is questioned because they usually arise much later.
It is generally thought that they function by giving one of their own electrons to the free radicals, either neutralizing them or releasing them so they can be flushed from the body as waste product.