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Lipid transfer protein allergy: A review of current controversies.

Riccardo AseroValerio PravettoniEnrico ScalaDanilo Villalta
Published in: Clinical and experimental allergy : journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology (2021)
Sensitization to lipid transfer protein (LTP), the most frequent cause of food allergy in southern Europe, still shows several controversial, but also intriguing, aspects. Some of these include the degree of cross-reactivity between LTPs from botanically distant sources, the definition of risk factors, the role of some cofactors, clinical outcomes, geographical differences and the identification of the primary sensitizer in different areas. This review article tries to analyse and comment on these aspects point by point suggesting some explanatory hypotheses with the final scope to stimulate critical thoughts and elicit the scientific discussion about this issue in the readership.
Keyphrases
  • risk factors
  • protein protein
  • fatty acid
  • amino acid
  • lymph node
  • drinking water
  • bioinformatics analysis
  • free survival