Vaccines against Allergies
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Part of the Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology book series (CT MICROBIOLOGY, volume 352)
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Introduction
The pathomechanisms of allergy are quite well investigated and the disease-causing allergens are characterized in great detail down to their molecular structures. We are thus beginning to see several new strategies for allergen-specific immunotherapy on the horizon, several of which are summarized in this issue. It thus seems that hundred years after the first experimental attempts to “desensitize” hayfever patients we are now capable of developing powerful and rational forms of immunotherapy which hold promise for curing allergy sufferers and eventually may allow real prophylactic vaccination against allergy. It is thus quite possible that allergy may become eradicated similar as certain forms of infectious diseases through vaccination.
Keywords
IgE-mediated allergy allergen specific immunotherapy diet-specific tolerance promotion engineered food proteins food allergy inflammatory immune response recombinant DNA technology recombinant allergens regulatory T lymphocyte synthetic peptides tolerance induction
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- DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20054-0
- Copyright Information Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011
- Publisher Name Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
- eBook Packages Biomedical and Life Sciences
- Print ISBN 978-3-642-20053-3
- Online ISBN 978-3-642-20054-0
- Series Print ISSN 0070-217X
- Series Online ISSN 2196-9965
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