The invention relates to peptides such as HCPYCSLQPLALEGSLQKRG [SEQ ID NO: 26] and their use in the treatment of type 1 diabetes and the generation of cytolytic CD4+ T cell.

Gastro-intestinal release capsule intended for oral use in a method for desensitizing and/or inducing tolerance in a peanut-allergic subject or, alternatively, for diagnosing a peanut allergy in a subject. The capsule has a shell and a core, the core has a composition of peanut including peanut, at least one oil, at least one first pulverulent excipient and, optionally, at least one second prebiotic excipient. The capsule is provided and ingested in an unopened form.

Compositions, reagents, formulations and methods to treat disease including autoimmune diseases and allergy are described. The compositions comprise an antigen causing immune intolerance, an immunosuppressant in a sustained release formulation. The methods, compositions, formulations and reagents to treat allergy also relate to applying the combination of allergen and immune activity enhancing agent in a sustained release formulation to a subject in need.

The present invention provides methods for treating, preventing or reducing the severity of active eosinophilic esophagitis. In certain embodiments, the present invention provides methods of increasing esophageal distensibility. The methods of the present invention comprise administering to a subject in need thereof a therapeutic composition comprising an interleukin-4/interleukin-13 (IL-4/IL-13) pathway inhibitor such as an anti-IL-4R antibody.

There is provided a peptide which is capable of binding to an MHC molecule in vitro and being presented to a T cell without antigen processing (i.e. an apitope) which peptide comprises all or a portion of the following proteolipid protein (PLP) peptides: PLP 36-61: HE ALTGTEKLIET YF SKN YQD YEYLI (SEQ ID NO. 1) PLP 179-206: TWTTCQSIAFPSKTSASIGSLCA-DARMY (SEQ ID NO. 2) PLP 207-234: GVLPWNAFPGKVCGSNLLSICKTAEFQM (SEQ ID NO. 3). There is also provided the use of such a peptide in a pharmaceutical composition and a method to treat and/or prevent a disease using such a peptide.

Compositions, reagents, formulations and methods to treat disease including autoimmune diseases and allergy are described. The compositions and formulations comprise an antigen causing immune intolerance, an immunosuppressant and a viscosity enhancing agent or a thermal phase changing agent. The reagent is a polymer conjugate comprising an antigen causing immune intolerance and an immunosuppressant conjugated to a polymer.

The present disclosure provides compositions for inducing immune tolerance and methods to modify antigen to treat allergy and autoimmune disease. Disclosed are compositions, and related methods, comprising APC presentable antigens and immunosuppressants that provide tolerogenic immune responses specific to antigen. In some embodiments, the composition is in a skin patch.

Methods of making mixed allergen drug products are provided, wherein the mixed allergen drug products are of known potency and identity and substantially free of replication viable organisms.

Provided are methods for inducing immune tolerance to antigens including therapeutic antigens. The present methods comprise administering to an individual OPLS or other lipidic compositions and the antigen, either in a single formulation or as separate formulations where the separate formulations are administered concomitantly or sequentially.

The invention provides therapeutic compositions that present an artificial repertoire of mammalian pattern recognition receptor (PRR) agonists, so that the pattern of PRR agonists recapitulates a distinct portion of a PRR agonist signature of a mammalian pathogen. The artificial repertoire of PRR agonists may be formulated together in a therapeutic vehicle for combined presentation to an innate immune cell resident in a target tissue in a mammalian host, and the vehicle adapted to deliver the PRR agonists to the target tissue, so as to modulate an immune response.