Allergy Medicine
Peptide-based vaccines for allergic and autoimmune diseases reviewed
Published in Immunotherapy Weekly, June 15th, 2005
According to a study from England, "Allergic and autoimmune diseases are forms of immune hypersensitivity that increasingly cause chronic ill health. Most current therapies treat symptoms rather than addressing underlying immunological mechanisms. The ability to modify antigen-specific pathogenic responses by therapeutic vaccination offers the prospect of targeted therapy resulting in long-term clinical improvement without nonspecific immune suppression. Examples of specific immune modulation can be found in nature and in established...
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Source: Immunotherapy Weekly (2005-06-15)
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