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Loren Erickson\u2019s team found that people with the meat allergy have a distinctive form of immune cells known as B cells, and they have them in great numbers. (Photo by Josh Barney)<\/p><\/div>\n

Loren Erickson has, for the first time, identified key immunological changes in people who abruptly develop an allergic reaction to mammalian meat, such as beef. His work also provides an important framework for other scientists to probe this strange, recently discovered allergy caused by tick bites.<\/p>\n

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The findings by UVA\u2019s Loren Erickson and his team offer important insights into why otherwise-healthy people can enjoy meat all their lives until a hot slab of ground beef or a festive Labor Day hot dog suddenly become potentially life-threatening. Symptoms of the meat allergy can range from mild hives to nausea and vomiting to severe anaphylaxis, which can result in death.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t know what it is about the tick bite that causes the meat allergy. And, in particular, we haven\u2019t really understood the source of immune cells that produce the antibodies that cause the allergic reactions,\u201d Erickson explained. \u201cThere\u2019s no way to prevent or cure this food allergy, so we need to first understand the underlying mechanism that triggers the allergy so we can devise a new therapy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Understanding the Meat Allergy<\/strong><\/h2>\n

People who develop the allergy in response to the bite of the lone star tick often have to give up eating mammalian meat, including beef and pork, entirely. Even food that does not appear to contain meat can contain meat-based ingredients that trigger the allergy. That means people living with the meat allergy must be hyper-vigilant. (For one person\u2019s experience with the meat allergy, visit UVA\u2019s\u00a0Making of Medicine blog<\/u><\/strong><\/a>.)<\/p>\n

The allergy was first discovered by UVA\u2019s\u00a0Dr. Thomas Platts-Mills, a renowned allergist who\u00a0determined<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0that people were suffering reactions to a sugar called alpha-gal found in mammalian meat. Exactly what is happening inside the body, though, has remained poorly understood. Erickson\u2019s work, along with that of others at UVA, is changing that.<\/p>\n

Erickson\u2019s team in UVA\u2019s Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology has found that people with the meat allergy have a distinctive form of immune cells known as B cells, and they have them in great numbers. These white blood cells produce antibodies that release chemicals that cause the allergic reaction to meat.<\/p>\n

In addition, Erickson, a member of UVA\u2019s Carter Immunology Center, has developed a mouse model of the meat allergy so that scientists can study the mysterious allergy more effectively.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the first clinically relevant model that I know of, so now we can go and ask a lot of these important questions,\u201d he said. \u201cWe can actually use this model to identify underlying causes of the meat allergy that may inform human studies. So it\u2019s sort of a back-and-forth of experiments that you can do in animal models that you can\u2019t do in humans. But you can identify potential mechanisms that could lead to new therapeutic strategies so that we can go back to human subjects and test some of those hypotheses.\u201d<\/p>\n

Findings Published<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Erickson describes the new meat allergy model\u00a0in an article in the\u00a0Journal of Immunology<\/u><\/strong><\/a>. The research team consisted of Jessica L. Chandrasekhar, Kelly M. Cox, William M. Loo, Hui Qiao, Kenneth S. Tung and Erickson. Tung and Erickson are both part of UVA\u2019s\u00a0Carter Center.<\/p>\n

To keep up with the latest medical research news from UVA, subscribe to the\u00a0<\/em>Making of Medicine<\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/a> blog.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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