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Listen to this siteDetails of Agency-funded projects under the Food Allergy research programme (T07).
This research project aims to investigate the prevalence of peanut allergy in UK children and the factors affecting the development of peanut allergy.
Results available.
This research projects aim to look at how such factors as feeding practices, a child's sex and social conditions influence the development of food intolerances in babies that were born prematurely.
Results available.
This research project aims to investigate a possible link between the biological basis for allergy to cows' milk and the general rise in allergies among children.
Results available.
This research project aims to find out whether certain food additives influence the behaviour of young children.
Results available.
This research project investigates whether eating eggs during pregnancy and breastfeeding has any influence on the incidence of egg allergy in infants.
Results available.
This research project aims to identify and describe components in certain foods that cause a condition known as oral allergy syndrome.
Results available.
This research project aims to assess the level of non-occupational allergy to four common storage mites in a large population with a family history of allergy.
Results available.
This research project aims to develop a method to predict if genetically modified foods, and new protein products, could cause food allergy.
Results available.
This research project aims to develop a method for testing for allergens in new foods.
Results available.
This research looks at the relationship between the development of allergy to peanuts and other foods that cause allergy.
Results available.
This research project aims to examine the basis for the apparent difference in allergic reaction to peanuts and nuts between young children and adults.
Results available.
These research projects aim to find out whether age is related to the development of allergy to more than one type of nut.
Results available.
This research project will examine whether all allergenic proteins found in peanut have a potent symptom-provoking ability or if this is limited to some proteins.
Results available.
This research project aims to look at people with multiple allergies and examine why some foods cause serious symptoms in some people, while others will cause only mild or no symptoms at all.
Results available.
This project aims to examine the role that affinity/avidity (strength/quality) of antibody binding to major peanut allergens has in the persistence of peanut allergy.
Results available.
This research project aims to determine whether structural features of proteins affect their allergenicity.
Results available.
This research project aims to determine whether allergic sensitisation to peanut protein or chicken egg ovalbumin (OVA) can occur via exposure of the skin.
Results available.
This research project aims to establish how common food allergy is among a group of children between birth and 15 years of age.
Results available.
This research project aims to develop a laboratory method to detect peanuts in food products.
Results available.
This research project aims to describe the clinical characteristics of allergy to kiwi in adults and children.
Results available.
This research aims to find out if piglets born to mothers that are immunologically sensitive to certain allergens are also sensitive to the same allergens.
Results available.
This research project examines the hypothesis that certain foods are more likely to cause allergic reactions because of their proteolytic (enzyme) activity.
Results available.
This project aims to establish whether avoiding peanuts during pregnancy and breastfeeding has any effect on the development of peanut allergy in a woman's children.
Results available.
This project aims to establish the role of IgG in the development of allergic sensitisation and reactions to foods.
Results available.
This project aims to investigate if differences in maternal IgG during pregnancy direct the form of allergen encountered in utero and later infant atopic phenotype.
This project aims to establish whether the issuing of the Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment (COT) advice has resulted in a change in the incidence of peanut allergy.
This project is evaluating the impact of the Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment (COT) report, that recommends atopic mothers avoid peanuts during pregnancy and breastfeeding, on the prevalence of peanut allergy.
This research assesses links between levels of peanut-specific IgG, using archive samples from patients with varying reactions to peanut.
Results available.
This research aims to determine the incidence and the trigger factors of fatal acute asthma in subjects up to the age of 32.
Results available.
This project aims to fully characterise all of the clinical symptoms associated with allergy to kiwi fruit.
This project aims to investigate if there is a possible link between an activating mutation in the c-kit oncogene and the risk of developing severe food allergy.
Results available.
This research project examines the impact of artificial food colourings and preservatives on children's behaviour.
Results available.
This research project will further our understanding of T cell responses in tolerant individuals thereby devising immunomodulatory strategies to normalise T cell responses in future therapies.
This research project aims to understand the role of T cells in regulating responses to allergen and in the pathogenesis of allergy and resolution.
This research project is a retrospective case controlled study investigating the role of infant's environmental peanut exposure on later allergy.
Results available.
This research project will investigate maternal exposure to dietary egg and milk during pregnancy and lactation and its role in the immune outcome of infants.
This project will explore the information needs of teenagers and young adults in relation to food allergy/intolerance and determine how best to meet them.
Results available.
This project will investigate the prevalence of food allergies and the current infant weaning practices adopted by mothers in the UK
Results available.
This research project aims to improve clinical management of food allergy by analysing detailed clinical and laboratory data from patients attending a local allergy clinic with suspected nut allergy.
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