E N Clare Mills, John A Jenkins, Ana I Sancho, Susan Miles, Charlotte Madsen, Errka Valovirta, Lynn Frewer
Through the EU-funded InformAll project a stakeholder consultation was conducted to solicit the views of different stakeholders (allergic consumers, health professionals, retailers, manufacturers, caterers, regulators and risk assessors, and the general public) regarding what information about food allergy is required by these stakeholders. The outcomes of this consultation are presented both generally and specifically from the potential perspectives of different stakeholders. The development of reliable credible resources aimed to begin to meet the needs identified is described, including a database of allergenic food materials which uniquely combines refereed information on the clinical aspects of food allergies with details of individual allergens and web portal with other credible internet resources.
{"title":"Food allergy information resources for consumers, industry and regulators.","authors":"E N Clare Mills, John A Jenkins, Ana I Sancho, Susan Miles, Charlotte Madsen, Errka Valovirta, Lynn Frewer","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Through the EU-funded InformAll project a stakeholder consultation was conducted to solicit the views of different stakeholders (allergic consumers, health professionals, retailers, manufacturers, caterers, regulators and risk assessors, and the general public) regarding what information about food allergy is required by these stakeholders. The outcomes of this consultation are presented both generally and specifically from the potential perspectives of different stakeholders. The development of reliable credible resources aimed to begin to meet the needs identified is described, including a database of allergenic food materials which uniquely combines refereed information on the clinical aspects of food allergies with details of individual allergens and web portal with other credible internet resources.</p>","PeriodicalId":77490,"journal":{"name":"Arbeiten aus dem Paul-Ehrlich-Institut (Bundesamt fur Sera und Impfstoffe) zu Frankfurt a.M","volume":" 95","pages":"17-25; discussion 25-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"26233277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Future perspectives of novel immunomodulating substances in immunotherapy.","authors":"Esther C de Jong, Martien L Kapsenberg","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77490,"journal":{"name":"Arbeiten aus dem Paul-Ehrlich-Institut (Bundesamt fur Sera und Impfstoffe) zu Frankfurt a.M","volume":" 95","pages":"207-10; discussion 210"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"26631267","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Arnd Petersen, Bettina Klostermann, Joachim Saloga, Wolf-Meinhard Becker
{"title":"Comparison of natural grass pollen allergens and their recombinant counterparts expressed in bacterial and mammalian systems.","authors":"Arnd Petersen, Bettina Klostermann, Joachim Saloga, Wolf-Meinhard Becker","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77490,"journal":{"name":"Arbeiten aus dem Paul-Ehrlich-Institut (Bundesamt fur Sera und Impfstoffe) zu Frankfurt a.M","volume":" 94","pages":"173-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24496883","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Anti-IgE therapy combined with SIT: contra.","authors":"Mark Larché","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77490,"journal":{"name":"Arbeiten aus dem Paul-Ehrlich-Institut (Bundesamt fur Sera und Impfstoffe) zu Frankfurt a.M","volume":" 94","pages":"272-6; discussion 276-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24496895","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Arnulf Hartl, Richard Weiss, Romana Hochreiter, Sandra Scheiblhofer, Roman Bauer, Rudolf Valenta, Fatima Ferreira, Wolfgang Leitner, Josef Thalhamer
During the past ten years, a great number of studies have demonstrated that injection of plasmid DNA coding for certain genes results in the induction of humoral and cellular immune responses against the respective gene product. The features of DNA vaccines enable a broad range of applications, including the induction of protective immunity against viral, bacterial, and parasitic infections, and open up new perspectives for the treatment of cancer. Furthermore, based on their Th1-promoting properties, DNA vaccines also turned out to balance Th2-mediated immune reactions, a quality which renders them a promising alternative for immunotherapy against allergy. Their unique immunological properties offer new possibilities for the development of vaccines, which do not cause anaphylactic side effects, a major drawback of specific immunotherapy (SIT). In this review, we present approaches to avoid the translation of native allergenic determinants, thus preventing release of allergy mediators stimulated by crosslinking of pre-existing or vaccine-induced IgE antibodies on mast cells. Three approaches are described, which fulfill these requirements: (i) cutting the allergen gene into overlapping fragments, which lack any antigenic determinant of the native allergen, but display the original repertoire of T cell epitopes, (ii) using hypoallergenic derivatives or (iii) fusing the allergen with ubiquitin, thus fragmenting the antigen and destroying its native structure. The presented experiments demonstrate that DNA vaccines are suitable to balance an allergic response in a protective as well as a therapeutic experimental design, thus demonstrating their potential for allergy treatment. In addition to conventional plasmid DNA vaccines, aspects and perspectives of replicon-based DNA vaccines will be discussed.
{"title":"Strategies for the development of safe and effective DNA vaccines for allergy treatment.","authors":"Arnulf Hartl, Richard Weiss, Romana Hochreiter, Sandra Scheiblhofer, Roman Bauer, Rudolf Valenta, Fatima Ferreira, Wolfgang Leitner, Josef Thalhamer","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>During the past ten years, a great number of studies have demonstrated that injection of plasmid DNA coding for certain genes results in the induction of humoral and cellular immune responses against the respective gene product. The features of DNA vaccines enable a broad range of applications, including the induction of protective immunity against viral, bacterial, and parasitic infections, and open up new perspectives for the treatment of cancer. Furthermore, based on their Th1-promoting properties, DNA vaccines also turned out to balance Th2-mediated immune reactions, a quality which renders them a promising alternative for immunotherapy against allergy. Their unique immunological properties offer new possibilities for the development of vaccines, which do not cause anaphylactic side effects, a major drawback of specific immunotherapy (SIT). In this review, we present approaches to avoid the translation of native allergenic determinants, thus preventing release of allergy mediators stimulated by crosslinking of pre-existing or vaccine-induced IgE antibodies on mast cells. Three approaches are described, which fulfill these requirements: (i) cutting the allergen gene into overlapping fragments, which lack any antigenic determinant of the native allergen, but display the original repertoire of T cell epitopes, (ii) using hypoallergenic derivatives or (iii) fusing the allergen with ubiquitin, thus fragmenting the antigen and destroying its native structure. The presented experiments demonstrate that DNA vaccines are suitable to balance an allergic response in a protective as well as a therapeutic experimental design, thus demonstrating their potential for allergy treatment. In addition to conventional plasmid DNA vaccines, aspects and perspectives of replicon-based DNA vaccines will be discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":77490,"journal":{"name":"Arbeiten aus dem Paul-Ehrlich-Institut (Bundesamt fur Sera und Impfstoffe) zu Frankfurt a.M","volume":" 94","pages":"279-98; discussion 299"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24497435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Birgitte Kristensen, Carmen Garcia, Oliver Cromwell, Louis Champion
{"title":"The manufacturers' perspective: regulation of allergen products in European countries.","authors":"Birgitte Kristensen, Carmen Garcia, Oliver Cromwell, Louis Champion","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77490,"journal":{"name":"Arbeiten aus dem Paul-Ehrlich-Institut (Bundesamt fur Sera und Impfstoffe) zu Frankfurt a.M","volume":" 94","pages":"47-53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24497609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Overview: biological standardization in Europe and the USA.","authors":"Henning Løwenstein","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77490,"journal":{"name":"Arbeiten aus dem Paul-Ehrlich-Institut (Bundesamt fur Sera und Impfstoffe) zu Frankfurt a.M","volume":" 94","pages":"67-8; discussion 69"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24497610","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Monika Raulf-Heimsoth, Hans-Peter Rihs, Thomas Brüning
{"title":"Latex: a new target for standardization.","authors":"Monika Raulf-Heimsoth, Hans-Peter Rihs, Thomas Brüning","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77490,"journal":{"name":"Arbeiten aus dem Paul-Ehrlich-Institut (Bundesamt fur Sera und Impfstoffe) zu Frankfurt a.M","volume":" 94","pages":"107-15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24496874","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Allergic rhinitis and its impact on asthma (ARIA)--what does it mean for the future of SIT?","authors":"Claus Bachert","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77490,"journal":{"name":"Arbeiten aus dem Paul-Ehrlich-Institut (Bundesamt fur Sera und Impfstoffe) zu Frankfurt a.M","volume":" 94","pages":"229-35"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24496890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hugh A Sampson, Kamal Srivastava, Xiu-Min Li, A Wesley Burks
{"title":"New perspectives for the treatment of food allergy (peanut).","authors":"Hugh A Sampson, Kamal Srivastava, Xiu-Min Li, A Wesley Burks","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77490,"journal":{"name":"Arbeiten aus dem Paul-Ehrlich-Institut (Bundesamt fur Sera und Impfstoffe) zu Frankfurt a.M","volume":" 94","pages":"236-44; discussion 244-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24496891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}