Immunological mechanisms in asthma and allergic diseases : symposium held on the occasion of Prof. A. Barry Kay's 60th birthday and 20th year as Head of Department, London, June 24-25 1999 [electronic resource] / volume editor Douglas S. Robinson.
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Conference proceedings.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Scienitific overview of 20 years' work in the department of allergy and clinical immunology under the guidance of professor A.B. Kay -- Regulation of Th2 cytokine gene transcription -- MHC-restricted, IgE-independent, allergen peptide-induced late asthmatic reactions -- The role of the T cell in the immunopathogenesis of asthma -- The Th1 and Th2 concept in atopic allergic disease -- The bronchial epithelial orgins of asthama -- Molecular basis for corticosteroid action in asthma -- Mast cell-eosinophil-fibroblast crosstalk in allergic inflammation -- The role of adhesion in eosinophil function -- Proposing Th2 DTH relevant to asthma: cutaneous basophil hypersensitivity then and now -- Novel immunosuppressants in asthma -- T-cell recruitment and specificity in allergic inflammation -- T cells and fibrosis -- Molecular pathology of allergic diseases -- Role of eotaxin and related CC chemokines in allergy and asthma -- C-C chemokine expression in atopic and nonatopic asthma -- Molecular mechanisms in eosinophil activation -- Immunotherapy for hayfever.
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