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Allergenicity in food allergy : influence of food processing and immunomodulation by lactic acid bacteria
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ISBN: 9789085859161 Year: 2011 Publisher: Wageningen : Wageningen University,

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Understanding immunology
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ISBN: 9780273730682 Year: 2011 Publisher: Harlow Prentice Hall Pearson

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An Alternative History of Hyperactivity
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ISBN: 1283864649 0813551021 9780813551029 9780813550169 0813550165 9780813550176 0813550173 9781283864640 Year: 2011 Publisher: New Brunswick, NJ

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In 1973, San Francisco allergist Ben Feingold created an uproar by claiming that synthetic food additives triggered hyperactivity, then the most commonly diagnosed childhood disorder in the United States. He contended that the epidemic should not be treated with drugs such as Ritalin but, instead, with a food additive-free diet. Parents and the media considered his treatment, the Feingold diet, a compelling alternative. Physicians, however, were skeptical and designed dozens of trials to challenge the idea. The resulting medical opinion was that the diet did not work and it was rejected. Matthew Smith asserts that those scientific conclusions were, in fact, flawed. An Alternative History of Hyperactivity explores the origins of the Feingold diet, revealing why it became so popular, and the ways in which physicians, parents, and the public made decisions about whether it was a valid treatment for hyperactivity. Arguing that the fate of Feingold's therapy depended more on cultural, economic, and political factors than on the scientific protocols designed to test it, Smith suggests the lessons learned can help resolve medical controversies more effectively.


Periodical
ISRN allergy.
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ISSN: 2090553X 20905521 Year: 2011 Publisher: New York, NY : Hindawi Publishing Corporation,


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Contact dermatitis
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ISBN: 3642038263 9786613087621 3642038271 1283087626 Year: 2011 Publisher: Berlin : Springer,

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The fifth edition of Contact Dermatitis covers in detail every conceivable aspect of irritant and allergic contact dermatitis and its modern-day management. Special emphasis is given to immunological mechanisms, molecular aspects of sensitizers, atypical clinical forms, reactions to medicaments, and occupational and environmental factors. In order to optimize the diagnostic approach, a wide range of information is provided, including a dictionary of contact allergens. Retained chapters from the previous edition have been thoroughly revised to reflect the latest knowledge. Furthermore, completely new chapters have been added on a variety of topics, including genetics, the role of the skin barrier, the link between respiratory symptoms triggered by chemicals and contact dermatitis, and prevention. The editors and authors are all leading practitioners in the field. The comprehensive but approachable text is supplemented by a large number of full color illustrations and tables. Core messages highlight the most important information and will help the reader to gain a better understanding of the subject and greater competence in everyday practice.


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Clinical and translational allergy.
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ISSN: 20457022 Year: 2011 Publisher: London : [Hoboken, New Jersey] : BioMed Central John Wiley and Sons, Ltd.


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Asia Pacific allergy.
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ISSN: 22338268 22338276 Year: 2011 Publisher: [Seoul] : [Philadelphia, PA] : Asia Pacific Association of Allergy, Asthma and Clinical Immunology, Wolters Kluwer Health


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Vaccines against Allergies
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ISBN: 3642200532 9786613365897 3642200540 1283365898 Year: 2011 Publisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,

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The pathomechanisms of allergy are quite well investigated and the disease-causing allergens are characterized in great detail down to their molecular structures. We are thus beginning to see several new strategies for allergen-specific immunotherapy on the horizon, several of which are summarized in this issue. It thus seems that hundred years after the first experimental attempts to “desensitize” hayfever patients we are now capable of developing powerful and rational forms of immunotherapy which hold promise for curing allergy sufferers and eventually may allow real prophylactic vaccination against allergy. It is thus quite possible that allergy may become eradicated similar as certain forms of infectious diseases through vaccination.


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Principles of Immunopharmacology
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ISBN: 3034601352 3034601360 Year: 2011 Publisher: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel : Imprint: Birkhäuser,

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Principles of Immunopharmacology provides a unique source of essential knowledge on the immune response, its diagnosis and its modification by drugs and chemicals. The third edition of this internationally recognized textbook has been revised to include recent developments, but continues the established format, dealing with four related fields in a single volume, thus obviating the need to refer to several different textbooks. The first section of the book, providing a basic introduction to immunology and its relevance for human disease, has been updated to accommodate new immunological concepts, including dendritic cells. The second section on immunodiagnostics offers a topical description of widely used molecular techniques and is followed by a systematic coverage of drugs affecting the immune system, including natural products. This third section contains 15 updated chapters, covering classical immunopharmacological topics such as anti-asthmatic, anti-rheumatic and immunosuppressive drugs, but also deals with antibiotics, plant-derived and dietary agents, with a new chapter on probiotics. The book concludes with a chapter on immunotoxicology and drug safety tests. Aids to the reader include a two-column format, glossaries of technical terms and appendix reference tables. The emphasis on illustrations, many of which have been redrawn for this edition, is maintained from the first two editions. The book is a valuable single reference for postgraduate medical and biomedical students, postgraduate chemistry and pharmacy students, researchers in chemistry, biochemistry and the pharmaceutical industry and researchers lacking basic immunological knowledge, who want to understand the actions of drugs on the immune system.

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Immunopharmacology. --- Immunologic Techniques --- Laboratory Techniques and Procedures --- Immunomodulation --- Immune System Phenomena --- Immunologic Factors --- Physiological Effects of Drugs --- Investigative Techniques --- Diagnosis --- Biological Therapy --- Phenomena and Processes --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Therapeutics --- Pharmacologic Actions --- Chemical Actions and Uses --- Chemicals and Drugs --- Immunologic Tests --- Immunotherapy --- Adjuvants, Immunologic --- Immunosuppressive Agents --- Immunity --- Biology --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Microbiology & Immunology --- Pharmacoimmunology --- Medicine. --- Immunology. --- Pharmacology. --- Allergy. --- Infectious diseases. --- Medical biochemistry. --- Cell biology. --- Biomedicine. --- Pharmacology/Toxicology. --- Cell Biology. --- Infectious Diseases. --- Allergology. --- Medical Biochemistry. --- Cell biology --- Cellular biology --- Cells --- Cytologists --- Medical biochemistry --- Pathobiochemistry --- Pathological biochemistry --- Biochemistry --- Pathology --- Allergic diseases --- Allergies --- Hypersensitivity --- Hypersensitivity, Immediate --- Immediate allergy --- Immediate hypersensitivity --- Immunologic diseases --- Immunoglobulin E --- Drug effects --- Medical pharmacology --- Medical sciences --- Chemicals --- Chemotherapy --- Drugs --- Pharmacy --- Immunobiology --- Life sciences --- Serology --- Clinical sciences --- Medical profession --- Human biology --- Physicians --- Physiological effect --- Immunology --- Pharmacology --- Immunotoxicology --- Toxicology. --- Cytology. --- Emerging infectious diseases. --- Biochemistry. --- Emerging infections --- New infectious diseases --- Re-emerging infectious diseases --- Reemerging infectious diseases --- Communicable diseases --- Biological chemistry --- Chemical composition of organisms --- Organisms --- Physiological chemistry --- Chemistry --- Medicine --- Poisoning --- Poisons --- Composition --- Toxicology --- Effect of drugs on. --- Clinical biochemistry.

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