Affiliations:
1 School of Medicine, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland
2 Translational Medicine Program, Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
3 Department of Immunology, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
4 Division of Immunology and Allergy, SickKids Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Program, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
5 Department of Paediatrics, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
6 Departments of Medicine and Microbiology, APC Microbiome Ireland, National University of Ireland, Cork, Ireland
7 Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences, Krems an der Donau, Austria
8 Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, University Hospital St. Pölten, St. Pölten, Austria
Corresponding Author: Thomas Eiwegger, MD, Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, University Hospital St. Pölten, Dunant-Platz 1, 3100 St. Pölten, Austria. E-mail: thomas.eiwegger@stpoelten.lknoe.at, Tel.: +43 2742-9004-11740
Word count: Abstract 157, Main text 4488
Keywords: Barrier function, Food allergy, Immunotherapy, Immune response, Mouse models