Mechanisms of Desensitization During Peanut Oral Immunotherapy
Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2015-12-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
The purpose of this study is to attempt to understand how desensitization works in peanut
allergic children who are undergoing oral immunotherapy (OIT) to peanut. We want to identify
the early changes in the desensitization process the immune cells undergo to become
desensitized to the peanut protein.
Phase:
Phase 2
Details
Lead Sponsor:
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Collaborator:
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)