| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Allergy Frontiers ; 2 |
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Allergy Frontiers ; 2
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| Contents |
Part I: Classification and pathomechanisms. Basic aspects of allergy and hypersensitivity reactions / Isabella Pali-Schöll and Erika Jensen-Jarolim ; Pathogen recognition and new insights into innate immunity / Joel N. Kline ; New nomenclature and clinical aspects of allergic diseases / S.G.O. Johansson ; IgE and the high-affinity receptor, FceRI: the IgE-CD23 interaction / Donald MacGlashan, Jr. ; Superantigens and allergic disease / Mark S. Schubert ; Immune complexes: normal physiology and role in disease / Michael M. Frank and C. Garren Hester ; What is new about eosinophil activation in asthma and allergic disease / Akira Kanda, Junichi Chihara, Monique Capron, and David Dombrowicz ; Mast cell and basophils: interaction with IgE and responses to toll like receptor activators / Jean S. Marshall, Michael G. Brown, and Ruby Pawankar ; T cells in allergic disease / Catherine M. Hawrylowicz, Christopher Corrigan, and Alex Faith ; Role of NKT cells in the regulation of ongoing Type 2 immune response / Christelle Faveeuw, Thomas Roumier, Monique Capron, and David Dombrowicz ; CD8+ T cells play a key role in the development of allergic lung inflammation / Nobuaki Miyahara and Erwin W. Gelfand ; Neutrophils and their mediators in asthma and allergic disease / Kian Fan Chung ; Dendritic cells, macrophages and monocytes in allergic disease / Alexander Faith, Christopher Corrigan, and Catherine M. Hawrylowicz ; Function of dendritic cell subsets in allergic disease / Bart N. Lambrecht and Hamida Hammad ; Epithelial cell-mesenchymal interaction, epithelial-leukocyte interaction and epithelial immune-response genes in allergic disease / Stephen T. Holgate ; Role of epidermal growth factor receptor cascade in airway epithelial regulation of mucus production / Jay Nadel ; Epithelial cell innate responses to rhinovirus infection / Jean Kim and Robert Schleimer ; The role of platelets in allergy / Kristin N. Kornerup and Clive P. Page ; Expression and function of Siglec-8 in human eosinophils, basophils, and mast cells / Stephan von Gunten and Bruce S. Bochner ; Effects of nitric oxide on mast cells: production, functions, and mechanisms of action / Tae Chul Moon, Yokananth Sekar, and A. Dean Befus ; Histamine and its receptors / Martin K. Church ; Adenosine: its contribution to our understanding in airway inflammation / Riccardo Polosa ; Airway smooth muscle dysfunction in asthma / Maria B. Sukkar and Kian Fan Chung ; Genetic variation in cytokines, asthma, and atopy: the role of IL-4/IL-13 pathway polymorphisms / Michaela Schedel and Michael Kabesch ; Allergy and the bone marrow: transmigration pathways of hemopoietic progenitor cells from the bone marrow / Roma Sehmi, Jennifer V. Thomson, and Adriana Catalli ; Hemopoietic mechanisms in allergic rhinitis and asthma / Gail M. Gauvreau and Roma Sehmi -- Part II: Allergy and the nervous system. Neuroanatomy of the airways / John Widdicombe ; Biology of neurotrophins, neuropeptides, and muscarinic receptors in asthma / Sanchaita Sonar and Harald Renz ; Neural regulation of the immune response / Paul Forsythe and John Bienenstock ; Neuroregulation of mucosal vasculature / Alfredo Chetta, Giovanna Pisi, and Dario Olivieri -- Part III: Allergy and mucosal immunology. Mucosal immunity: from allergy to coeliac disease / Per Brandtzaeg ; Mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue and dynamics of lymphoid cells in the five different compartments in allergic diseases / Satoshi Fukuyama, Takahiro Nagatake, and Hiroshi Kiyono |
| Summary |
This volume gives the pathomechanisms of various allergic diseases and their classification, including such important special aspects as allergy and bone marrow, allergy and the nervous system, and allergy and mucosal immunology |
| Analysis |
geneeskunde |
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medicine |
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allergies |
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volksgezondheid |
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public health |
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Medicine (General) |
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Geneeskunde (algemeen) |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Allergy -- Pathophysiology
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Allergy -- Epidemiology
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Allergy.
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Hypersensitivity
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MEDICAL -- Immunology.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Allergies.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Immune System.
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Allergy
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Allergy -- Pathophysiology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Pawankar, Ruby.
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Holgate, S. T.
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Rosenwasser, Lanny J.
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| ISBN |
9784431883159 |
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4431883150 |
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