Background: A subset of food-allergic patients does not only respond clinically with symptoms in the gastro-intestinal tract but also with asthmatic reactions.
Objective: The aim of this study was to analyse whether CD4+ T cells from mice with intestinal immediate-hypersensitivity reactions to food allergen are involved in the development of experimental asthma.
Methods: BALB/c mice were intraperitoneally sensitized to ovalbumin (OVA), followed by repeated intra-gastric (i.