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Allergic and autoimmune reactions to xenobiotics: how do they arise?
P Griem1, M Wulferink, B Sachs
1Division of Immunology, Medical Institute of Environmental Hygiene at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany. griem@uni-duesseldorf.de
Immunology Today
|April 16, 1998
Abstract:
Induction of allergic and autoimmune reactions by drugs and other chemicals constitutes a major public health problem. Elucidation of the underlying mechanisms might help improve diagnostic tools and therapeutic approaches. Here, Peter Griem and colleagues focus on several aspects of neoantigen formation by xenobiotics: metabolism of xenobiotics into reactive, haptenic metabolites; polymorphisms of metabolizing enzymes; induction of costimulatory signals; and sensitization of T cells.