The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
Volume 123, Issue 2 , Pages 443-451 , February 2009

Food Allergy Herbal Formula-2 silences peanut-induced anaphylaxis for a prolonged posttreatment period via IFN-γ–producing CD8+ T cells

  • Kamal D. Srivastava, MPhil

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatrics, Jaffe Food Allergy Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
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  • Chunfeng Qu, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatrics, Jaffe Food Allergy Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
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  • Tengfei Zhang, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatrics, Jaffe Food Allergy Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
    • ,
  • Joseph Goldfarb, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
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  • Hugh A. Sampson, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatrics, Jaffe Food Allergy Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
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  • Xiu-Min Li, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatrics, Jaffe Food Allergy Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Xiu-Min Li, MD, Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, NY 10029-6574.

Received 29 October 2008 ,Revised 19 December 2008 ,Accepted 22 December 2008.

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 Supported by the Food Allergy Initiative and by National Institutes of Health grant #AT001495-01A1 awarded to X.-M.L.

 Disclosure of potential conflict of interest: X.-M. Li has received research support from the National Institutes of Health/National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine and the Food Allergy Initiative; has provided legal consultation or expert witness testimony on the topic of food allergy; and shares a patent for Food Allergy Herbal Formula-2 with Herbal Springs, LLC. H. A. Sampson received research support from the National Institutes of Health/National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine and the Food Allergy Initiative; is a consultant/scientific advisor for the Food Allergy Initiative and president of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology; and is part-owner of Herbal Springs, LLC. The rest of the authors have declared that they have no conflict of interest.

PII: S0091-6749(08)03467-2

doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2008.12.1107

The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
Volume 123, Issue 2 , Pages 443-451 , February 2009

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