title: Food allergy: an enigmatic epidemic.
abstract: Food allergy is a common disease that is rapidly increasing in prevalence for reasons that remain unknown. Current research efforts are focused on understanding the immune basis of food allergy, identifying environmental factors that may contribute to its rising prevalence, and developing immunotherapeutic approaches to establish immune tolerance to foods. Technological advances such as peptide microarray and MHC class II tetramers have begun to provide a comprehensive profile of the immune response to foods. The burgeoning field of mucosal immunology has provided intriguing clues to the role of the diet and the microbiota as risk factors in the development of food allergy. The purpose of this review is to highlight significant gaps in our knowledge that need answers to stem the progression of this disorder that is reaching epidemic proportions.
authors: Jaffe Food Allergy Institute, Immunology Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
authors: M Cecilia
authors: MC
authors: Berin
authors: Hugh A
authors: HA
authors: Sampson
mesh_terms: D058872:Epidemics; D005512:Food Hypersensitivity / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000276:immunology*; D006801:Humans
keywords: IgE; Th2; Treg; anaphylaxis; immunotherapy; microbiota; mucosal immunology
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