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Oral Tolerance: The Response of the Intestinal Mucosa to Dietary Antigens


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Olivier Morteau
Harvard University


ISBN: 978-0-306-47989-2
Pub date: 2004-07-27
220 pages


Table of contents

Presentation of the gastrointestinal mucosa

Oral tolerance : overview of the phenomenon

Mechanisms of oral tolerance

Role of epithelial cells in oral tolerance

Cytokines and oral tolerance

Influence of bacterial antigens

Defects in oral tolerance : food hypersensitivities and other enteropathies

Clinical applications of oral tolerance : anti-inflammatory vaccines

Oral tolerance: Summary and perspectives