Future immunotherapy: what lies ahead?
There is currently great interest in developing improved methods of immunotherapy and new techniques of immune system manipulation to ameliorate allergic diseases. This article reviews current research trends in the immunologic treatment of allergy, including the use of chemically modified allergens, nonparenteral allergen exposure, sustained-release allergen delivery, anti-immunoglobulin E antibodies, gamma-globulin, immune complexes, cytokines, and T-cell-tolerogenic peptides.
D006801:Humans; D006967:Hypersensitivity / Q000276:immunology / Q000628:therapy*; D007167:Immunotherapy / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends*