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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2025

Scientific developments in understanding food allergy prevention, diagnosis, and treatment.

Shirin Karimi Hund, Vanitha Sampath, Xiaoying Zhou, Bryan Thai, Khushi Desai, Kari C Nadeau

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Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Eating away at food allergy.Pediatric allergy and immunology : official publication of the European Society of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology · 2025
    Review
  5. Using Biologics in the Prevention of Anaphylaxis.Current allergy and asthma reports · 2025
    Review
  6. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Shirin Karimi HundClinic for Internal Medicine, Spital Zollikerberg, Zollikerberg, Switzerland.
Vanitha SampathDepartment of Environmental Health, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States.
Xiaoying ZhouDepartment of Environmental Health, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States.
Bryan ThaiGeffen Academy at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States.
Khushi DesaiDepartment of Environmental Health, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States.
Kari C NadeauDepartment of Environmental Health, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States.

Funding

Tracking allergen specific T cells in multi-food allergyU19AI104209 · NIAID · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI GALLI, STEPHEN JOSEPH · 2013 to 2025
$17.3M
T Cell Reagent Research for Monitoring T Cell in Food AllergyU01AI140498 · NIAID · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI NADEAU, KARI C. · 2018 to 2022
$1.8M
Evaluating the role of allergen dose and duration in the safety and efficacy of multi-allergen oral immunotherapy with OmalizumabUM1AI130839 · NIAID · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI CHINTHRAJAH, R. SHARON · 2017 to 2023
$1.6M
NIAID NIH HHS U01 AI140498NIAID NIH HHS U19 AI104209NIAID NIH HHS UM1 AI130839
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Food allergies (FAs) are adverse immune reactions to normally innocuous foods. Their prevalence has been increasing in recent decades. They can be IgE-mediated, non-IgE mediated, or mixed. Of these, the mechanisms underlying IgE-mediated FA are the best understood and this has assisted in the development of therapeutics. Currently there are two approved drugs for the treatment of FA, Palforzia and Omalizumab. Palfornia is a characterized peanut product used as immunotherapy for peanut allergy. Immunotherapy, involves exposure of the patient to small but increasing doses of the allergen and slowly builds immune tolerance to the allergen and increases a patient's allergic threshold. Omalizumab, a biologic, is an anti-IgE antibody which binds to IgE and prevents release of proinflammatory allergenic mediators on exposure to allergen. Other biologics, investigational vaccines, nanoparticles, Janus Kinase and Bruton's tyrosine kinase inhibitors, or DARPins are also being evaluated as potential therapeutics. Oral food challenges (OFC) are the gold standard for the diagnosis for FA. However, they are time-consuming and involve risk of anaphylaxis; therefore, alternative diagnostic methods are being evaluated. This review will discuss how the immune system mediates an allergic response to specific foods, as well as FA risk factors, diagnosis, prevention, and treatments for FA.

Indexed as

Food HypersensitivityAllergensAnimalsAnti-Allergic AgentsDesensitization, ImmunologicHumansImmunoglobulin EOmalizumabAllergensAnti-Allergic AgentsImmunoglobulin EOmalizumabbiologicsbiomarkersdiagnosisfood allergyIgE antibodiesimmunotherapyprevention

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PMID40330465
PMCPMC12052904

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