“…Experimental animal models are commonly used to simplify and study complex human pathologies such as allergy or colitis [23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33], and they allow the discovery of interactions and common elements of particular signaling events and molecular pathways. With this aim, we examined the exacerbating or inhibitory potential of active intestinal colitis on the allergic response to an internalized food antigen, using the dinitrofluorobenzene/dinitrosulfonic acid (DNFB/DNS) model of colitis [27] and a well-established model of allergy based on ovalbumin (OVA) intraperitoneal (IP) sensitization and challenge.…”