Overview
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Ruby Pawankar
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Nippon Medical School, Bunkyo-ku, Japan
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Stephen T. Holgate
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Southampton General Hospital, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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Lanny J. Rosenwasser
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Childrens's Mercy Hospital and Clinic, UMKC School of Medicine, Kansas City, USA
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Table of contents (32 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages i-xxii
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Classification and Pathomechanisms
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- Isabella Pali-Schöll, Erika Jensen-Jarolim
Pages 3-17
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- Michael M. Frank, C. Garren Hester
Pages 79-94
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- Akira Kanda, Junichi Chihara, Monique Capron, David Dombrowicz
Pages 95-107
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- Jean S. Marshall, Michael G. Brown, Ruby Pawankar
Pages 113-133
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- Catherine M. Hawrylowicz, Christopher Corrigan, Alex Faith
Pages 135-149
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- Christelle Faveeuw, Thomas Roumier, Monique Capron, David Dombrowicz
Pages 151-165
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- Nobuaki Miyahara, Erwin W. Gelfand
Pages 167-178
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- Alexander Faith, Christopher Corrigan, Catherine M. Hawrylowicz
Pages 195-207
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- Bart N. Lambrecht, Hamida Hammad
Pages 209-230
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- Jean Kim, Robert Schleimer
Pages 267-284
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- Kristin N. Kornerup, Clive P. Page
Pages 285-296
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- Stephan von Gunten, Bruce S. Bochner
Pages 297-313
About this book
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 u- ally 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.
Reviews
From the reviews:
"Allergy Frontiers is a remarkable undertaking by 3 well-known experts in the field of allergy/immunology. … This text brings the reader up to date on the basic science of allergic diseases. … will serve as a catalyst for further research. … helpful to clinicians, who are often challenged to understand why some patients respond to treatment and others do not. … will serve as an invaluable resource for academicians, allergy/immunology training programs, and curious individuals who require more than a basic understanding of the subject." (Katherine Gundling, Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 302 (17), November, 2009)
Editors and Affiliations
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Nippon Medical School, Bunkyo-ku, Japan
Ruby Pawankar
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Southampton General Hospital, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
Stephen T. Holgate
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Childrens's Mercy Hospital and Clinic, UMKC School of Medicine, Kansas City, USA
Lanny J. Rosenwasser
