Novel Administration Routes for Allergen-Specific Immunotherapy: A Review of Intralymphatic and Epicutaneous Allergen-Specific Immunotherapy - 11/08/11

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For the past century, subcutaneous allergen-specific immunotherapy has been the state-of-the-art treatment for IgE-mediated allergic disease. Current research on allergen-specific immunotherapy is focused on enhancing its efficacy, safety, and patient convenience with the goal of offering a broadly accepted treatment option. There is a growing interest in intralymphatic allergen-specific immunotherapy because it is a highly efficacious and safe treatment route that requires only 3 injections. Concurrently, epicutaneous allergen-specific immunotherapy is attracting increasing attention because of its capacity to offer a safe, needle-free, and potentially self-administrable treatment option for IgE-mediated allergic diseases. In this article, we discuss the principles and immunologic rationale of these unconventional routes of allergen-specific immunotherapy while highlighting their developmental process and clinical relevance.
Le texte complet de cet article est disponible en PDF.Keywords : Intralymphatic allergen-specific immunotherapy, Epicutaneous allergen-specific immunotherapy, Vaccination route, Intralymphatic vaccination, Epicutaneous vaccination
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| This work was supported in part by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF), the University of Zurich, Medanz Medical GmbH (Starnberg, Germany), Allergy Innovations (Munich, Germany), MannKind Corporations (Valencia, CA, USA), and ImVisioN GmbH (Hannover, Germany). |
Vol 31 - N° 2
P. 391-406 - mai 2011 Retour au numéroBienvenue sur EM-consulte, la référence des professionnels de santé.
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