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1 online resource (xi, 182 pages) |
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Current topics in microbiology and immunology ; v. 352 |
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Current topics in microbiology and immunology ; v. 352.
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| Contents |
Immunological approaches for tolerance induction in allergy / Melanie L. Conrad, Harald Renz and Kurt Blaser -- Clinical experience with recombinant molecules for allergy vaccination / Oliver Cromwell [and others] -- Allergen-specific immunotherapy with recombinant allergens / G. Pauli and Hans-Jorgen Malling -- Vaccine approaches for food allergy / Philip Rancitelli, Alison Hofmann and A. Wesley Burks -- Intralymphatic immunotherapy : from the rationale to human applications / Gabriela Senti, Pal Johansen and Thomas M. Kundig -- Induction of allergen-specific tolerance via mucosal routes / Laurent Mascarell [and others] -- T cell epitope-based allergy vaccines / Mark Larche -- Allergen-specific immunotherapy : towards combination vaccines for allergic and infectious diseases / Johanna Edlmayr [and others] -- Passive immunization with allergen-specific antibodies / Sabine Flicker [and others] -- Cell-based therapy in allergy / Ulrike Baranyi [and others] |
| Summary |
The pathomechanisms of allergy are quite well investigated and the disease-causing allergens are characterized in great detail down to their molecular structures. We are thus beginning to see several new strategies for allergen-specific immunotherapy on the horizon, several of which are summarized in this issue. It thus seems that hundred years after the first experimental attempts to "(Bdesensitize" hayfever patients we are now capable of developing powerful and rational forms of immunotherapy which hold promise for curing allergy sufferers and eventually may allow real prophylactic vaccination against allergy. It is thus quite possible that allergy may become eradicated similar as certain forms of infectious diseases through vaccination |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Antiallergic agents.
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Vaccines.
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Desensitization, Immunologic -- methods
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Anti-Allergic Agents
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Vaccines
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Allergens -- immunology
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Hypersensitivity -- immunology
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Hypersensitivity -- therapy
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Vaccines -- immunology
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Antiallergic agents
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Vaccines
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Valenta, Rudolf, 1963-
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Coffman, Robert L.
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| ISBN |
9783642200540 |
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3642200540 |
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9783642200533 |
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3642200532 |
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1283365898 |
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9781283365895 |
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9786613365897 |
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6613365890 |
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