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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BookSeries: Chemical immunology: v. 78.Publisher: Basel ; New York : Karger, 2000Description: xii, 214 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.Subject(s): Asthma -- Immunological aspects | Allergy -- Immunological aspects | Eosinophils | ChemokinesGenre/Form: Electronic books.Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 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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