T cell specific and non specific tolerance mechanisms in peanut oil immunotherapy in peanut allergic subjects
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Rationale Our main focus in the laboratory is to understanding the mechanisms of how oral immunotherapy (OIT) improves outcomes in patients. In this study, we aimed to determine if OIT is specific only to the food allergens administered in OIT or also to other offending allergens (i.e. “bystander effect”). To accomplish our aim, we studied T cell reactivity (i.e. proliferation assays) and T cell specificity (i.e. tetramer assays with peanut peptides) in both effector T cell (CD4+CD25neg) or Teff and regulatory T cell (CD4+CD25hiFoxp3+) or Treg subsets.
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