Oral tolerance: lessons on treatment of food allergy.

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Oral tolerance is the active non-response by the immune system to an antigen administered through the oral route. It is postulated that food hypersensitivity results from a breakdown in oral tolerance induction, and the importance of oral tolerance in food hypersensitivity can be traced back to classic experiments from 1911 in which guinea pigs were protected from anaphylaxis by prior feeding of antigen. Host and...

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