Vaccines against Allergies

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Valenta, Rudolf (Editor), Coffman, Robert L. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, 352
• Subjects: Medicine.; Immunology.; Vaccines.; Biomedicine.; Vaccine.

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 i...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Immunological approaches for tolerance induction in allergy
• Clinical experience with recombinant molecules for allergy vaccination
• Allergen-specific immunotherapy with recombinant allergens
• Vaccine approaches for food allergy
• Induction of allergen-specific tolerance via mucosal routes
• T cell epitope-based allergy vaccines
• Allergen-specific immunotherapy: Towards combination vaccines for allergic and infectious diseases
• Cell-based therapy in allergy
• Subject index.