Full Description
This text provides the reader with a comprehensive survey of the most clinically relevant aspects of human basophils and mast cells and their mediators in health and disease. The contributions cover disorders, such as mastocytosis and respiratory and cutaneous allergy, associated with cells. The less well-known involvement of the latter in atherosclerosis and gastrointestinal, cardiac, rheumatic and neoplastic diseases is emerging as an area of considerable interest as several chapters show.
Contents
Biology, diagnosis and therapy of mastocytosis, G. Marone et al; role of mast cells and basophils in asthma, A.E. Redington et al; role of mast cells and basophils in rhinitis, R.S. Peebles Jr and A. Togias; role of basophils and mast cells in acute and late reactions in the skin, E.N. Charlesworth; mast cells and basophils in adverse reactions to drugs used during general anaesthesia, C. Stellato and G. Marone; role of mast cells in atherosclerosis, P.T. Kovanen; what are human heart mast cells for?, V. Patella and G. Marone; role of mast cells and basophils in gastrointestinal inflammation, B.K. Wershil; role of mast cells in arthritis, J.A. Arnason and D.G. Malone; mast cells and tumour-associated angiogenesis, C.J. Meininger.
