Avtor/Urednik     Schoos, Anne-Marie Malby; Bullens, Dominique; Chawes, Bo Lund; Costa, Joana; De Vlieger, Liselot; DunnGalvin, Audrey; Epstein, Michelle M.; Garssen, Johan; Hilger, Christiane; Knipping, Karen; Zidarn, Mihaela
Naslov     Immunological outcomes of allergen-specific immunotherapy in food allergy
Tip     članek
Leto izdaje     2020
Obseg     str. 1-20
ISSN     1664-3224 - Frontiers in immunology
Jezik     eng
Abstrakt     IgE-mediated food allergies are caused by adverse immunologic responses to food proteins. Allergic reactions may present locally in different tissues such as skin, gastrointestinal and respiratory tract and may result is systemic life-threatening reactions. During the last decades, the prevalence of food allergies has significantly increased throughout the world, and considerable efforts have been made to develop curative therapies. Food allergen immunotherapy is a promising therapeutic approach for food allergies that is based on the administration of increasing doses of culprit food extracts, or purified, and sometime modified food allergens. Different routes of administration for food allergen immunotherapy including oral, sublingual, epicutaneous and subcutaneous regimens are being evaluated. Although a wealth of data from clinical food allergen immunotherapy trials has been obtained, a lack of consistency in assessed clinical and immunological outcome measures presents a major hurdle for evaluating these new treatments. Coordinated efforts are needed to establish standardized outcome measures to be applied in food allergy immunotherapy studies, allowing for better harmonization of data and setting the standards for the future research. Several immunological parameters have been measured in food allergen immunotherapy, including allergen-specific immunoglobulin levels, basophil activation, cytokines, and other soluble biomarkers, T cell and B cell responses and skin prick tests. In this review we discuss different immunological parameters and assess their applicability as potential outcome measures for food allergen immunotherapy that may be included in such a standardized set of outcome measures.
Deskriptorji     Food hypersensitivity
Food intolerance
Immunotherapy
Immunology
Preobčutljivost za hrano
Intoleranca na hrano
Imunoterapija
Imunologija
Proste vsebinske oznake     alergija za hrano
prehranski alergeni
oralna imunoterapija
food allergy
food allergens
oral immunotherapy