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NAUNYN-SCHMIEDEBERGS ARCHIVES OF PHARMACOLOGY
Volume 369, Issue 1, Pages 125-132Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00210-003-0804-6
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drug allergy; hypersensitivity; asthma; gene polymorphism; SNP
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Drug allergy encompasses a broad spectrum of different diseases. It occurs in some individuals, whereas it does not occur in many others. This suggests, among others, the involvement of hereditary factors, and thus of gene polymorphisms. Since drug metabolising enzymes as well as the immune system itself may be responsible for drug allergy, gene polymorphisms are relevant in both systems. While already some information exists on gene polymorphisms of drug metabolising enzymes that result in drug allergy, little information is available on gene polymorphisms within the immune system that result in such allergy. This review sets out to provide an avenue for future research aimed at discovering such polymorphisms. To this end, immune mechanisms that underlie drug allergy will be discussed. A pivotal mechanism underlying several types of drug allergy, immediate-type (type I) hypersensitivity, is also a hallmark of asthma, and therefore drug allergy and asthma share a range of candidate genes. Research on asthma has come relatively far in establishing associations of disease with polymorphisms in these genes. Therefore, these polymorphisms and their associations with asthma will be discussed. These studies on asthma provide us with lessons on how to conduct such studies on drug allergy.
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