Allergy Frontiers:Epigenetics, Allergens and Risk Factors [electronic resource] /
Pawankar, Ruby.editor.
Holgate, Stephen T.editor.
Rosenwasser, Lanny J.editor.
When I entered the field of allergy in the early 1970s, the standard textbook was a few hundred pages, and the specialty was so compact that texts were often authored entirely by a single individual and were never larger than one volume. Compare this with Allergy Frontiers: Epigenetics, Allergens, and Risk Factors, the present s- volume text with well over 150 contributors from throughout the world. This book captures the explosive growth of our specialty since the single-author textbooks referred to above. The unprecedented format of this work lies in its meticulous attention to detail yet comprehensive scope. For example, great detail is seen in manuscripts dealing with topics such as "Exosomes, naturally occurring minimal antigen presenting units" and "Neuropeptide S receptor 1 (NPSR1), an asthma susceptibility gene." The scope is exemplified by the unique approach to disease entities normally dealt with in a single chapter in most texts. For example, anaphylaxis, a topic usually confined to one chapter in most textbooks, is given five chapters in Allergy Frontiers. This approach allows the text to employ multiple contributors for a single topic, giving the reader the advantage of being introduced to more than one vi- point regarding a single disease.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Evolution of Allergy -- The Allergy Epidemic: A Look into the Future -- Is the Prevalence of Allergy Continuously Increasing? -- Allergy: A Burden for the Patient and for the Society -- Epigenetics and Phenotypes -- Epidemiology of Asthma and Allergic Rhinitis -- Epidemiology of Pediatric Asthma -- Epidemiology of Occupational Asthma -- Epidemiology of Asthma Mortality -- Epidemiology of Anaphylaxis -- Epidemiology and Food Hypersensitivity -- Genetics of Asthma and Bronchial Hyperresponsiveness -- Genetics of Pediatric Asthma -- Genetic and Molecular Regulation of ?2-Adrenergic Receptors -- Genetics of Hypersensitivity -- Functional Genomics of Allergic Diseases -- Genetic Markers for Differentiating Aspirin-Hypersensitivity -- Allergens -- Molecular Biology of Allergens: Structure and Immune Recognition -- Role of Allergens in Airway Disease and Their Interaction with the Airway Epithelium -- Sensitisation to Airborne Environmental Allergens: What Do We Know and What are the Problems? -- The Immunological Basis of the Hygiene Hypothesis -- Risk Factors -- Early Sensitization and Development of Allergic Airway Disease-Risk Factors and Predictors: Is the Adult Responder Phenotype Determined during Early Childhood? -- T Cell Responses to the Allergens and Association with Different Wheezing Phenotypes in Children -- Indoor Air Pollution and Airway Disease -- Impact of Tobacco Smoke on Asthma and Allergic Disease -- Socioeconomic Status and Asthma in Children.
When I entered the field of allergy in the early 1970s, the standard textbook was a few hundred pages, and the specialty was so compact that texts were often authored entirely by a single individual and were never larger than one volume. Compare this with Allergy Frontiers: Epigenetics, Allergens, and Risk Factors, the present s- volume text with well over 150 contributors from throughout the world. This book captures the explosive growth of our specialty since the single-author textbooks referred to above. The unprecedented format of this work lies in its meticulous attention to detail yet comprehensive scope. For example, great detail is seen in manuscripts dealing with topics such as "Exosomes, naturally occurring minimal antigen presenting units" and "Neuropeptide S receptor 1 (NPSR1), an asthma susceptibility gene." The scope is exemplified by the unique approach to disease entities normally dealt with in a single chapter in most texts. For example, anaphylaxis, a topic usually confined to one chapter in most textbooks, is given five chapters in Allergy Frontiers. This approach allows the text to employ multiple contributors for a single topic, giving the reader the advantage of being introduced to more than one vi- point regarding a single disease.
Biochemistry.
Allergy.
Immunology.
Biochemistry, general.
Allergology.
Immunology.