New Diagnostic and Therapeutic Approaches in Food Allergy, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 May 2026 | Viewed by 1499
Special Issue Editors
Interests: asthma; food allergy; microRNAs; exosomes
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Interests: asthma; system biology; allergic biomarkers
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Interests: asthma; drug allergy; dendritic cell; basophil activation test
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is a continuation of our previous Special Issue, ‘New Diagnostic and Therapeutic Approaches in Food Allergy’.
Food allergy refers to an adverse reaction by the immune system triggered by harmless food-derived allergens. In recent years, the incidence of these allergic disorders has increased, becoming a serious social and economic burden worldwide. Although various studies and guidelines have emphasized that food allergies are more common in children than in adults, they can cause mild to severe symptoms in both groups, and can sometimes be life-threatening. Therefore, diagnosis and treatment are crucial in order to avoid food allergy reactions.
This Special Issue welcomes submissions of original research articles, clinical case reports, and reviews on the diagnosis and treatment of food allergies. Specific subject areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Specific mechanisms of food allergies (cellular and molecular).
- Current clinical tips for food allergy diagnosis.
- Novel methods for food allergy diagnosis.
- Cellular and molecular biomarkers of food allergies.
- The role of food tolerance acquisition.
- The involvement of dendritic cells, T regulatory cells, and innate lymphoid cells in the mechanisms of food allergies.
- New perspectives on allergen immunotherapy.
- New approaches to desensitization for food allergies.
- Monoclonal antibody therapies for the treatment of food allergies.
- Clinical implications of food–pollen cross-reactivity.
- Genetics and epigenetics related to food allergies.
Dr. José Antonio Canas
Dr. Blanca Cárdaba
Dr. Rubén Fernández-Santamaría
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- food allergy
- T2 response
- IgE-mediated mechanisms
- basophil activation test
- immunotherapy
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