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ReviewClinical reviews in allergy & immunology2019

Immunotherapy of Food Allergy: a Comprehensive Review.

Christine Y Y Wai, Nicki Y H Leung, Patrick S C Leung, Ka Hou Chu

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Review in Clinical reviews in allergy & immunology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
17citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.8field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 54 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Cassava oral immunotherapy in cassava-latex allergy: A pilot study.The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. Global · 2026
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  7. Dendritic cells in food allergy, treatment, and tolerance.The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology · 2024
    Review
  8. Oral Immunotherapy in Food Allergy: Where Are We Now?Allergy, asthma & immunology research · 2023
    Review
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  11. Overcoming Shellfish Allergy: How Far Have We Come?International journal of molecular sciences · 2020
    Review
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  13. Regional Differences in Food Allergies.Clinical reviews in allergy & immunology · 2019
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  17. Can alternative epitope mapping approaches increase the impact of B-cell epitopes in food allergy diagnostics?Clinical and experimental allergy : journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Christine Y Y WaiSimon F.S. Li Marine Science Laboratory, School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Room 201A, Science Park Road, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong, SAR, China.
Nicki Y H LeungSimon F.S. Li Marine Science Laboratory, School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Room 201A, Science Park Road, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong, SAR, China.
Patrick S C LeungDivision of Rheumatology/Allergy, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA, 95616, USA. psleung@ucdavis.edu.
Ka Hou ChuSimon F.S. Li Marine Science Laboratory, School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Room 201A, Science Park Road, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong, SAR, China. kahouchu@cuhk.edu.hk.
Chinese University of Hong Kong · CNUniversity of California, Davis · US

Funding

Health and Medical Research Fund 02130206
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Food allergy imposes a severe global health burden, and thus, there is a dire need for safe and effective treatments. Allergen-specific immunotherapy (AIT) is currently the only approach to restore immune tolerance through administrating increasing doses of allergen extracts. Unfortunately, the development of AIT for food allergies has been impeded by the frequent anaphylactic side effects during the course of treatment. The emergence of component-resolved diagnosis has greatly improved our ability to identify causative allergens and revolutionized the design of AIT. Molecular features such as IgE-binding epitopes and T cell epitopes have been elucidated in most major food allergens, inspiring the use of multiple strategies to manipulate the allergens and design safer alternatives to AIT. Although these allergen-modifying approaches are currently restricted to preclinical characterization and animal studies, the employment of these strategies has certainly paved the way for improving the safety of existing AIT. A safe and effective AIT for food allergy is not far beyond reach.

Indexed as

AllergensAnaphylaxisAnimalsDesensitization, ImmunologicEpitopes, T-LymphocyteFood HypersensitivityHumansImmune ToleranceImmunoglobulin EMiceAllergensEpitopes, T-LymphocyteImmunoglobulin EConjugated allergensHypoallergenMimotopeOmalizumabT cell epitope

Identifiers

PMID28929421
OpenAlexW2755373010

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Registered trials

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