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Slow desensitization protocol for oral deferasirox was successfully applied in an adult patient....
Oral immunotherapy (OIT) and epicutaneous immunotherapy (EPIT) are emerging therapies for food allergy. With several recently published exploratory trials and randomized controlled clinical trials tha...
The purpose of the present report is to trace some of the important historical milestones in the development of OIT and EPIT that have contributed to their evolving clinical application to the treatme...
An extensive research was conducted in the medical literature data bases by applying terms such as food allergy, desensitization, tolerance, unresponsiveness, Treg cells, allergen immunotherapy (AIT),...
OIT and EPIT take their origins from AIT (also called desensitization), a procedure first reported for the treatment of hay fever over a 100 years ago in which slowly increasing doses of a specificall...
The origins and important historical landmarks that have been made in the field of food allergy immunotherapy are presented in the context of the immunologic mechanisms that contribute to the pathogen...