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ReviewCurrent allergy and asthma reports2010

Oral food desensitization.

Todd D Green, A Wesley Burks

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Review in Current allergy and asthma reports, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 25% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Todd D GreenChildren's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, PA 15224, USA. todd.green@chp.edu
A Wesley Burks
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh · USDuke Medical Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The immunologic interactions in the gastrointestinal tract are extensive and complex. In most cases, the end result of this activity is one of tolerance, which refers to the inhibition of an immune response. However, in a minority of cases, food allergy develops, and this seems to be increasing in prevalence. We continue to learn about the mechanisms involved in these processes and the factors that may promote tolerance as opposed to allergy. At this point, management of food allergy consists of allergen avoidance and readiness to manage an accidental exposure reaction, but using current knowledge of gastrointestinal immunity, researchers are investigating immunomodulatory approaches that will provide "active" therapy for food allergy and induce tolerance. Oral immunotherapy is one important therapy being studied, and in this article, we review recent results from studies of this potential treatment for food allergy.

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Immune ToleranceDesensitization, ImmunologicFood HypersensitivityHumans

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PMID20730515
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