title: Mechanisms of oral tolerance.
abstract: Oral tolerance is the specific immunological unresponsiveness induced by feeding antigen. Although it is an obstacle to oral vaccination, it is probably the mechanism that prevents intestinal hypersensitivity reactions to food antigens and may provide a novel strategy for the treatment of a range of inflammatory disorders. Feeding antigen can provide stable and long-lasting tolerance of a wide range of immune responses to a variety of antigens. However, the mechanisms of oral tolerance and the major factors that influence them remain controversial.
authors.affiliation: Department of Immunology, University of Glasgow.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Garside
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Mowat
mesh_terms: D000284:Administration, Oral; D000818:Animals; D001327:Autoimmune Diseases / Q000628:therapy; D017635:Clonal Anergy; D017637:Clonal Deletion; D016207:Cytokines / Q000276:immunology; D004306:Dose-Response Relationship, Immunologic; D005512:Food Hypersensitivity / Q000276:immunology; D006801:Humans; D007108:Immune Tolerance; D007167:Immunotherapy; D007249:Inflammation / Q000628:therapy; D007413:Intestinal Mucosa / Q000276:immunology*; D051379:Mice
chemical_list: D016207:Cytokines