Mechanisms of Allergen-Specific Immunotherapy and Novel Ways for Vaccine Development

Allergen-specific immunotherapy (SIT) is the only available curative treatment of allergic diseases. Recent evidence provided a plausible explanation to its multiple mechanisms inducing both rapid desensitization and long-term allergen-specific immune tolerance, and suppression of allergic inflammat...

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Main Authors: Marek Jutel, Willem Van de Veen, Ioana Agache, Kursat A Azkur, Mubeccel Akdis, Cezmi A Akdis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2013-01-01
Series:Allergology International
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1323893015301611