Open AccessA Single Monoclonal Antibody against the Peanut Allergen Ara h 2 Protects against Systemic and Local Peanut Allergy
Author(s) -
Federico Storni,
Gustavo Cabral-Miranda,
Elisa Roesti,
Lisha Zha,
Paul Engeroff,
Andris Zeltiņš,
Mark S. Cragg,
Monique Vogel,
Martin F. Bachmann
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international archives of allergy and immunology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.696
H-Index - 100
eISSN - 1423-0097
pISSN - 1018-2438
DOI - 10.1159/000505917
Subject(s) - allergen , immunology , monoclonal antibody , peanut allergy , allergy , desensitization (medicine) , in vivo , medicine , immunoglobulin e , antibody , chemistry , food allergy , receptor , biology , microbiology and biotechnology
Peanut allergy is the most prevalent and dangerous food allergy. Peanuts consist of a large number of different allergens and peanut-allergic patients are frequently sensitized to multiple allergens. Hence, conventional desensitization approaches aim at targeting as many allergens as possible.