Immune Modulation and Allergy Therapy

Interventions that deliberately raise, lower or retrain the immune system's own response, rather than adding a vaccine, an antibody product or a screening test. This includes allergen immunotherapy, which retrains the immune system's response to a specific allergen; immunosuppression and immunosuppressive therapy, which deliberately dampen immune activity, most often for autoimmune disease or transplant care; tolerogenic therapy, which aims to induce lasting immune tolerance to a specific target; cell therapy as a broader immune and regenerative cell-based intervention; and Celacade, a named apheresis-based immune-modulation therapy investigated for chronic heart failure. A therapy that adds a ready-made antibody or vaccine rather than modulating the patient's own immune response is grouped elsewhere.