TY - JOUR AU - Maina, E. AU - Pelst, M. AU - Hesta, M. AU - Cox, E. PY - 2017 DA - 2017/01/18 TI - Food-specific sublingual immunotherapy is well tolerated and safe in healthy dogs: a blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study JO - BMC Veterinary Research SP - 25 VL - 13 IS - 1 AB - Food allergies are increasing in prevalence but no treatment strategies are currently available to cure dogs with food allergy. Over the past decade, experimental food allergen-specific sublingual immunotherapy (FA-SLIT) has emerged as a potential treatment for food allergies in human medicine. However, FA-SLIT has not been investigated in dogs. Therefore, the objective of this study was to prospectively evaluate the safety, tolerability and dispenser sterility of FA-SLIT in healthy dogs before testing it in food allergic dogs. SN - 1746-6148 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12917-017-0947-1 DO - 10.1186/s12917-017-0947-1 ID - Maina2017 ER -