Recent Advances in the Immunopathology, Diagnostic Biomarkers, Susceptibility and Potential Therapies for Adverse Reactions to Food
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Immunology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 September 2024 | Viewed by 225
Special Issue Editor
Interests: gastrointestinal track; histamine; gut microbiome; clinical immunology; allergy
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Dear Colleagues,
Over the last years, there has been an huge increase in adverse food reactions. The life style changes in the past decades, as well as the quality of food itself and pollution, can be highlighted as reasons of this, among others. An adverse food reaction is characterized as any clinically abnormal response that can be attributed to ingestion, contact or inhalation of a food, its derivatives or an additive contained in it. The main classification distinguishes adverse reactions (ARs) to food into two categories: food allergy or food intolerance. The first is immune-mediated, while the second is not. Furthermore, in immune-mediated adverse reactions to food, we can find examples of IgE-mediated reactions, non IgE-mediated reactions, mixed reactions (both IgE and non-IgE-mediated) and cellular responses. In the non-immune mediated category, we observe toxic, idiopathic, metabolic (enzymatic) or pharmacological involvement. But there are still unclassified reactions which are non-specific food sensitivities like irritable bowel syndrome, which is difficult to categorize in any of the mentioned classifications. In this Special Issue, all papers about recent advances in the immunopathology of adverse reactions to food are welcome. Creation of clear classifications of food reactions based on their mechanism, as well as systemizing the knowledge about adverse food reactions, allow the appropriate treatment to be chosen from existing ones and potentially new treatments to be designed in the future.
Dr. Sylwia Smolińska
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- adverse reactions to food
- food intolerance
- food allergy
- gastrointestinal tract disorders
- food hypersensitivity classification
