Food allergy: What do we learn from animal models?

Current Opinion in Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 205-209

  Knippels, Léon M J ^a   Van Wijk, Femke ^a,b   Penninks, André H ^a  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Allergenicity; Animal models; Food allergy; Therapy

Indexed keywords

ARA H 1 ALLERGEN; ARA H 2 ALLERGEN; ARA H 3 ALLERGEN; DNA VACCINE; FOOD ALLERGEN; FUNGAL IMMUNOMODULATORY PROTEIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E ANTIBODY; PROTEIN FIP FVE; RECOMBINANT ANTIGEN; RECOMBINANT CYTOKINE; RECOMBINANT PEANUT ALLERGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLERGENICITY; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DESENSITIZATION; DOG; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG RESEARCH; DRUG SCREENING; FOOD ALLERGY; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HEALTH HAZARD; HYPOTHESIS; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; IMMUNOPROPHYLAXIS; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DIET; PROTEIN INTAKE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PUBLICATION; RAT STRAIN; REVIEW; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIZATION; SWINE; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL;

ANIMALS; FOOD HYPERSENSITIVITY; HUMANS; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INTERLEUKIN-10; INTERLEUKIN-4; MODELS, ANIMAL; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 2542499679     PISSN: 15284050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00130832-200406000-00012     Document Type: Review

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