Screen LibraryHistory of allergy /
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| Group Author: | ; |
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| Published: |
Karger,
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| Publisher Address: | Basel : |
| Publication Dates: | [2014] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Chemical immunology and allergy,
volume 100 |
| Subjects: | |
| Carrier Form: | xx, 425 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits (some color) ; 28 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9783318021943 (alkaline paper) : 3318021946 (alkaline paper) |
| Index Number: | RC584 |
| CLC: | R593.1-09 |
| Call Number: | R593.1-09/H673 |
| Contents: | Preliminaries -- History of allergy in antiquity -- History of allergy in the middle ages and renaissance -- Landmarks in allergy during the 19th century -- Milestones in the 20th century -- Terminology of allergic phenomena -- Anaphylaxis -- Allergic rhinitis -- Asthma -- Atopic dermatitis/atopic eczema -- Allergic contact dermatitis -- Urticaria and angioedema -- Allergy and the eye -- History of food allergy -- Drug hypersensitivity -- Aspirin hypersensitivity -- Bradykinin-mediated diseases -- Mechanisms of allergy: important discoveries -- The discovery of immunoglobulin E and its role in allergy -- T cell subpopulations -- Mast cell research -- Basophils: historical reflections and perspectives -- Eosinophils -- The bradykinin-forming cascade: a historical perspective -- Histamine receptors and antihistamines: from discovery to clinical applications -- Detection of environmental influences and allergens -- Pollen and pollinosis -- Mites and allergy -- Mammalian airborne allergens -- The latex story -- Peanut allergens -- Environmental pollution and allergy: historical aspects -- Farmers and their environment: protective influences of the farming environment against the development of allergies -- Progress in allergy management -- History of catecholamine research -- Antihistamines -- Glucocorticoids -- Chromones -- Characterization and standardization of allergen extracts -- Allergen-specific immunotherapy -- Pioneers of allergy: personal reflections -- K. Frank Austen -- John Bienenstock -- Kurt Blaser -- Alain de Weck (1928-2013) -- Alfred William Frankland -- Oscar L. Frick -- Kimishige Ishizaka -- Lothar Jäger -- Terumasa Miyamoto -- Harry Morrow Brown (1917-2013) -- Albert K. Oehling -- Heimo Reulecke -- Václav Špičák -- Allergy societies and collections -- AAAAI -- APAAACI -- CIA -- EAACI -- JSA -- SLAAI -- WAO -- AAAAI archives -- The Ilya Mechnikov Collection in Riga -- Online supplementary material -- Movie 1: Anaphylaxie et allergie -- Movie 2: World allergy: the disease of civilization. |