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ReviewAllergy, asthma & immunology research2018

Allergen-Specific Immunotherapies for Food Allergy.

Elizabeth Feuille, Anna Nowak-Wegrzyn

2 registry-linked trialsOpen access · hybridAbstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Allergy, asthma & immunology research, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 34 papers.

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34citing papers in PubMed
6.1field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

NCT05158413 naunknown statusnot on this mapstarted 2022, after this paper: background citation

High and Low Dose Oral Sesame Immunotherapy - Comparison of Efficacy and Safety

TypeinterventionalSponsorMedical University of WarsawRan2022 to 2025Enrolled40ConditionsFood AllergyArmsHigh dose, Low dose
NCT06261554 narecruitingnot on this mapstarted 2024, after this paper: background citation

Efficacy and Safety of Low-dose Sesame Oral Immunotherapy in Pediatric Patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial

TypeinterventionalSponsorMedical University of WarsawRan2024 to 2027Enrolled39ConditionsFood AllergyArmsDietary Supplement: Low dose OIT
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

34 citing papers in PubMed, 81 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
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  3. The Psychosocial Burden of Pediatric Food Allergy in the United States: A Population-Based Survey.The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. In practice · 2025
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  7. Identifying patients at risk of anaphylaxis.The World Allergy Organization journal · 2024
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  10. Oral Immunotherapy in Food Allergy: Where Are We Now?Allergy, asthma & immunology research · 2023
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  19. Grand Challenges in Food Allergy.Frontiers in allergy · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Elizabeth FeuilleDivision of Pediatric Pulmonology, Allergy, and Immunology, Department of Pediatrics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
Anna Nowak-WegrzynDivision of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, Department of Pediatrics, Jaffe Food Allergy Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA. anna.nowak-wegrzyn@mssm.edu.
Cornell University · USENT and Allergy · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

With rising prevalence of food allergy (FA), allergen-specific immunotherapy (AIT) for FA has become an active area of research in recent years. In AIT, incrementally increasing doses of inciting allergen are given with the goal to increase tolerance, initially through desensitization, which relies on regular exposure to allergen. With prolonged therapy in some subjects, AIT may induce sustained unresponsiveness, in which tolerance is retained after a period of allergen avoidance. Methods of AIT currently under study in humans include oral, sublingual, epicutaneous, and subcutaneous delivery of modified allergenic protein, as well as via DNA-based vaccines encoding allergen with lysosomal-associated membrane protein I. The balance of safety and efficacy varies by type of AIT, as well as by targeted allergen. Age, degree of sensitization, and other comorbidities may affect this balance within an individual patient. More recently, AIT with modified proteins or combined with immunomodulatory therapies has shown promise in making AIT safer and/or more effective. Though methods of AIT are neither currently advised by experts (oral immunotherapy [OIT]) nor widely available, AIT is likely to become a part of recommended management of FA in the coming years. Here, we review and compare methods of AIT currently under study in humans to prepare the practitioner for an exciting new phase in the care of food allergic patients in which improved tolerance to inciting foods will be a real possibility.

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epicutaneous immunotherapyFood allergyoral immunotherapysubcutaneous immunotherapysublingual immunotherapy

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PMCPMC5911438
OpenAlexW2792139012

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