Inflammatory mechanisms in asthma /
This timely volume brings together the latest basic and clinical insights on the cellular and mediator mechanisms involved in the induction and persistence of airway dysfunction of asthma by over 90 experts in the field-paving the way for developing novel and more effective antiinflammatory therapeu...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Marcel Dekker,
©1998.
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| Series: | Lung biology in health and disease ;
v. 117. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Claude Lenfant
- 1. The Pathology of Fatal Asthma / Alan L. James and Neil Carroll
- 2. Bronchoscopy / Anthony J. Frew and Ratko Djukanovic
- 3. Bronchoalveolar Lavage in Studies of Asthma / Mark C. Liu and William J. Calhoun
- 4. Evidence from Induced Sputum / Peter G. Gibson and Frederick E. Hargreave
- 5. Mast Cell Proteases in Asthma / Andrew F. Walls
- 6. Mast Cell Cytokines in Allergic Inflammation / John Joseph Costa, Stephen J. Galli and Martin K. Church
- 7. Airway Responses to Antigen in Asthmatic and Nonasthmatic Subjects / Stephen P. Peters, Joseph R. Shaver and James G. Zangrilli [and others]
- 8. The Role of the Basophil in the Inflammatory Mechanisms of Asthma / L.H. Thomas and J.A. Warner
- 9. Eosinophils: Granule Proteins / Maria-Cristina Seminario, Cheryl R. Adolphson and Gerald J. Gleich
- 10. Eosinophil Activation in Asthma / Shinji Motojima, Takeshi Fukuda and Sohei Makino
- 11. Eosinophil Autacoids / Anthony P. Sampson.