Glossary
A substance that when administered to a recipient can elicit a change in the state of the immune system. It can be a change from sensitization to tolerance in allergic disease of from naivete or tolerance to protective sensitization against infectious agents or against the tumor-specific antigens of cancers.
An antigen for which the range of known responses includes allergic sensitization.
If one injects pre-formed particles in the 0.5-to-5-micron size range for efficient APC uptake they will stay in clumps where APCs cannot reach them. ADBP is the method discovered by Dr. Coifman to create particles in this size range where APCs can find and reach them by precipitation. Read more: https://bomepharma.com/immunotherapy/ https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/bc800317a
A process of administering an allergen to which the recipient is allergic in a manner designed to safely induce tolerance to that allergen. Read more: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9575636/
An allergic reaction that typically presents as allergic eczema. A common example The rash induced by allergy to poison ivy is. Read more: (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK459230/)