Allovate Therapeutics articles

Abstract
Background: The sublingual mucosa has been used for many years to apply allergenic extracts for the purpose of specific immunotherapy (IT). Although sublingual IT (SLIT) is both safe and efficacious, the density of antigen-presenting cells is higher in other regions of the oral cavity and vestibule, which make them a potentially desirable target for IT.

Objective: To present the concept of oral mucosal IT (OMIT) and to provide pilot data

Derek Lacarrubba was allergic to New York City.

Lacarrubba, 31, got stuffed up around cats, dogs, three kinds of dust mites and several varieties of native New Yorkers - trees, that is. He couldn`t sleep. He had trouble going to the gym. And as an attorney, he was too busy to commit to the years-long treatments doctors typically recommend: weekly shots at the doctor`s office or holding liquid drops under his tongue for a few minutes every morning.

That`s when he found Dr. Will