Vaccine against autoimmune disease: antigen-specific immunotherapy.

Vaccine against autoimmune disease: antigen-specific immunotherapy.
Curr Opin Immunol. 2013 Mar 8;
Authors: Anderson RP, Jabri B
Abstract
Recent interest in testing whether the success of antigen-specific immunotherapy (ASIT) for autoimmune diseases in mice can be translated to humans has highlighted the need for better tools to study and understand human autoimmunity. Clinical development of ASIT for allergy has been instructive, but limited understanding of CD4 T cell epitope/determinant hierarchies hampers the rational design and monitoring of ASIT. Definitive identification of pathogenic T cell epitopes as is now known in celiac disease and recent initiatives to optimize immune monitoring will facilitate rational design, monitoring and mechanistic understanding of ASIT for human autoimmune diseases.
PMID: 23478068 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Current Opinion in Immunology - March 8, 2013 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Anderson RP, Jabri B Tags: Curr Opin Immunol Source Type: research