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Immunotherapy for food allergies

Past, present, future

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The future certainly holds promise for the treatment of food allergies. Generally, future treatments can be divided into immunological manipulation of the food-allergic subject (mucosal vaccines, new immunotherapies, cytokine level alterations) or manipulation of the food through genetic engineering to diminish or abolish its allergenic activity.

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  1. Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, Tulane University Medical Center, New Orleans, LA

    Samuel B. Lehrer & Laurianne G. Wild

  2. Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC

    Kenneth L. Bost

  3. Division of Allergy and Immunology, Department of Pediatrics, Louisiana State University Medical Center, New Orleans, LA

    Ricardo U. Sorensen

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Lehrer, S.B., Wild, L.G., Bost, K.L. et al. Immunotherapy for food allergies. Clinic Rev Allerg Immunol 17, 361–381 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02737616

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