Nonallergen-specific treatments for food allergy

Current Opinion in Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 293-301

  Lieberman, Jay A ^a   Wang, Julie ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese herbal therapy; food allergy; omalizumab; probiotics; treatment

Indexed keywords

FOOD ALLERGY HERBAL FORMULA 1; FOOD ANTIGEN; HERBACEOUS AGENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E ANTIBODY; OMALIZUMAB; PLACEBO; PREBIOTIC AGENT; PROBIOTIC AGENT; TALIZUMAB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ANTIHELMINTH THERAPY; ATOPY; CHINESE MEDICINE; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSE ESCALATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ECZEMA; EOSINOPHILIC ESOPHAGITIS; FOOD ALLERGY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HELMINTH; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMAN; IMMUNOTHERAPY; LACTIC ACID BACTERIUM; LOOSE FECES; NONHUMAN; ORAL IMMUNOTHERAPY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PEANUT ALLERGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VOMITING;

ANIMALS; ANTI-ALLERGIC AGENTS; ANTIBODIES, ANTI-IDIOTYPIC; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL, HUMANIZED; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; FOOD HYPERSENSITIVITY; HUMANS; INFANT; MICE; PROBIOTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84860749707     PISSN: 15284050     EISSN: 14736322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACI.0b013e3283534cf8     Document Type: Review

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