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ReviewAnnals of the American Thoracic Society2014

Mechanisms of peptide immunotherapy in allergic airways disease.

Mark Larché

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Review in Annals of the American Thoracic Society, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16citing papers in PubMed
2.9field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed, 36 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Immunology of allergen immunotherapy.Immunotherapy advances · 2022
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  11. Pathogenic CD4The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology · 2017
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  14. IgE in the diagnosis and treatment of allergic disease.The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology · 2016
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  15. T Cell Epitope Peptide Therapy for Allergic Diseases.Current allergy and asthma reports · 2016
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  16. Immunoregulatory T cell epitope peptides: the new frontier in allergy therapy.Clinical and experimental allergy : journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology · 2015
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Mark LarchéDepartment of Medicine, Firestone Institute for Respiratory Health, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
McMaster University · CA

Funding

Canadian Institutes of Health Research
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Allergen immunotherapy with whole proteins is clinically efficacious but requires a protracted treatment period because of frequent allergic adverse events. A combination of duration of treatment and adverse events leads to poor compliance. Short synthetic peptides containing the major immunodominant T cell epitopes of allergenic proteins have been shown to reduce IgE cross-linking ability, thereby leading to fewer allergic adverse events following their administration to patients with allergies. Peptide immunotherapy has been shown to result in clinically meaningful efficacy in several Phase II, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trials. Exactly how peptide immunotherapy achieves its efficacy remains incompletely understood, but the mechanisms are thought to include immune deviation and induction of regulatory T cells capable of suppressing allergen-specific immune responses. Limited data are available on the effects of peptide therapy on humoral immune responses. Induction of allergen-specific IgG has been observed after peptide therapy, but the levels of antibody induced were much lower than generally seen with the utilization of whole allergen approaches. Thus, the immunological mechanisms of peptide immunotherapy appear to overlap, although not completely, with those seen in whole allergen therapy. Further studies are required to fully elucidate mechanisms of action.

Indexed as

Immunity, CellularDesensitization, ImmunologicHumansImmune ToleranceRespiratory HypersensitivityT-Lymphocytes, Regulatoryallergyepitopeimmune toleranceimmunologyT cell

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PMID25525735
PMCPMC5473681
OpenAlexW2091087066

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