Author: Plunkett, Catherine H.; Nagler, Cathryn R.
Description: The alarming increase in the incidence and severity of food allergies has coincided with lifestyle changes in Western societies, such as dietary modifications and increased antibiotic use. These demographic shifts have profoundly altered the coevolved relationship between host and microbiota, depleting bacterial populations critical for the maintenance of mucosal homeostasis. There is increasing evidence that the dysbiosis associated with sensitization to food fails to stimulate protective tolerogenic pathways, leading to the development of the type 2 immune responses that characterize allergic disease. Defining the role of beneficial allergy-protective members of the microbiota in the regulation of tolerance to food has exciting potential for new interventions to treat dietary allergies by modulation of the microbiota.
Subject headings: Dysbiosis; Food Hypersensitivity; Gastrointestinal Microbiome; Humans; Immunity; Mucosal; Gut
Publication year: 2017
Journal or book title: Journal of Immunology
Volume: 198
Issue: 2
Pages: 581–589
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Type: Journal Article
Serial number: 3141