Drug Hypersensitivity Reactions and Pseudoallergy: A Moving Frontline in Allergy Research
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: closed (31 March 2024) | Viewed by 13050
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Interests: hypersensitvity reactions; anaphylaxis; pseudoanaphylaxis
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Dear Colleagues,
Pseudo-allergy is an acute allergy syndrome manifesting itself in the same clinical symptoms as allergy, but the reactions are not IgE-mediated. In addition to the nonimmune-mediated release of mediators from mast cells and/or basophils, a frequent cause of pseudo-allergy is IgG and IgM binding to the allergen with subsequent complement activation and stimulation of allergy-mediating immune cells via anaphylatoxin and other surface receptors. Pseudo-allergy has become a major issue in modern pharmacotherapy, as the number of unpredicted pseudo-allergic hypersensitivity reactions to state-of-art biologicals and nanomedicines far outweigh the occurrence of true allergic reactions, which can be predicted and diagnosed by classic allergy tests. At present, the standard care against pseudo-allergy, whose worst manifestation is life-threatening pseudo-anaphylaxis, is premedication of patients with antihistamines, steroids, and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agents. However, this therapy is frequently ineffective, presenting a clinical need for better prevention and/or treatment protocols. A recent development in this field is that the increased occurrence of allergic reactions to some COVID-19 vaccines actually represent a pseudo-allergy. This volume provides a collections of original research papers and reviews on these poorly understood acute reactions, written by clinicians and immunologists encountering this problem. Since IJMS is a journal of molecular science, pure clinical studies will not suitable for our journal. However, clinical or pure model submissions with biomolecular experiments are welcomed.
Dr. János Szebeni
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Ig-E-mediated allergy
- type-I allergy
- antibodies complement
- CARPA
- mast cells
- histamine
- IgG
- IgM
- IgE
- hypersensitvity reactions
- anaphylaxis
- pseudo-anaphylaxis
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