Allergy vaccine may take fear out of nuts
Researchers have developed an oral vaccine that protects mice against the worst effects of peanut allergies.
References:
Moffatt, M.F., and W.O.C. Cookson. 1999. Gene therapy for peanut allergy. Nature Medicine 5(April):380.
Roy, K. . . . and K.W. Leong. 1999. Oral gene delivery with chitosan-DNA nanoparticles generates immunologic protection in a murine model of peanut allergy. Nature Medicine 5(April):387.
Further Readings:
Raloff, J. 1996. Peanut allergy found common and increasing. Science News 150(Sept. 7):150.
Travis, J. 1996. Swallowing Shigella. Science News 149(May 11):302.
Sources:
Wesley A. Burks
Arkansas Children's Hospital
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Department of Pediatrics/Allergy
800 Marshall Street
Little Rock, AR 72202
William O.C. Cookson
John Radcliffe Hospital
Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine
Headington, Oxford 0X3 9DU
United Kingdom
Kam W. Leong
Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine
Department of Biomedical Engineering
720 Rutland Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21205
Miriam F. Moffatt
John Radcliffe Hospital
Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine
Headington, Oxford 0X3 9DU
United Kingdom
From Science News, Vol. 155, No. 14, April 3, 1999, p. 213. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.
