The Year in Allergy
Contributors: Holgate, ST
Series: Year in; Year in
Publisher: Atlas Medical Pub.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9781846925627
Description: "The Year in Allergy provides the interested reader with a thoughtful and insightful review of the advances in the field, and of the contributions which are most important to our up to date understanding of the allergic problem world-wide." From the Foreword to the previous volume by Professor Stephen I Wasserman. Allergy is now emerging as a front line scientific and medical discipline of great importance. Within the subject there have been considerable advances in the past decade in understanding the underlying mechanism of allergy and the diseases associated with it. At the same t.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Editors and Contributors; Foreword; Preface; Part I: Epidemiology and genetics; 1. Epidemiology and risk factors; 2. Genetics of asthma and allergy; Part II: Pathophysiology and diseases; 3. Airway inflammation; 4. Atopic dermatitis; 5. Allergic rhinitis; 6. Systemic allergic reactions; 7. Food allergy; 8. Drug allergy; 9. Immunodeficiency; Part III: Treatment modalities for allergic diseases; 10. Environment control; 11. Immunotherapy; 12. Bronchodilators including phosphodiesterase-4 inhibitors; 13. Corticosteroids and asthma; 14. Experimental therapies for allergic disorders