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Asthma : causes and mechanisms of an epidemic inflammatory disease /

Contributor(s): Platts-Mills, Thomas.
Series: Indoor air research series.Publisher: Boca Raton : Lewis Publishers, c1999Description: 241 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1566703735 (alk. paper); 9781566703734 :.Subject(s): Asthma -- Etiology | Asthma -- Pathophysiology | Asthma -- Congresses | Air Pollution, Indoor -- adverse effects -- Congresses | Asthma -- etiology -- Congresses | Asthma -- immunology -- CongressesDDC classification: 616.238
Contents:
The rising prevalence and severity of asthma in Western society : are the causes of asthma the causes of the increase? / Thomas A.E. Platts-Mills ... [et al.] -- Viral modulation of airway inflammation / Scherer P. Sanders and David Proud -- The risk of developing asthma during childhood / Peter W. Heymann ... [et al.] -- Loss of airway M₂ muscarinic receptor function following inflammation and viral infection / David B. Jacoby and Allison D. Fryer -- Role of CD4+ T cells in the development of aeroallergen-induced allergic inflammation / Marsha Wills-Karp -- Modified recombinant allergens for immunotherapy / Alisa M. Smith -- Cockroach-sensitive guinea pig asthma : a model for indoor environmental asthma / Bann C. Kang ... [et al.] -- The effects of environmental tobacco smoke on asthma : studies with a dynamic exposure chamber / Samuel B. Lehrer, Roy J. Rando, and Manuel Lopez -- Airborne contaminants and asthma : the effects of ozone, NO₂, SO₂ endotoxin and diesel particulates on normal & asthmatic lungs / David Peden and Brian Boehlecke -- The role of genetics and indoor allergen exposure in atopic asthma / Kathleen Barnes and Mark C. Liu -- The contribution of genes and environment to asthma / Lanny Rosenwasser.
Summary: This text presents research on the causes and mechanisms behind the dramatic increase of asthma in the United States and other nations to epidemic proportions. Investigators from eight research groups in asthma and/or allergy present their findings, funded by the Center for Indoor Air Research.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The rising prevalence and severity of asthma in Western society : are the causes of asthma the causes of the increase? / Thomas A.E. Platts-Mills ... [et al.] -- Viral modulation of airway inflammation / Scherer P. Sanders and David Proud -- The risk of developing asthma during childhood / Peter W. Heymann ... [et al.] -- Loss of airway M₂ muscarinic receptor function following inflammation and viral infection / David B. Jacoby and Allison D. Fryer -- Role of CD4+ T cells in the development of aeroallergen-induced allergic inflammation / Marsha Wills-Karp -- Modified recombinant allergens for immunotherapy / Alisa M. Smith -- Cockroach-sensitive guinea pig asthma : a model for indoor environmental asthma / Bann C. Kang ... [et al.] -- The effects of environmental tobacco smoke on asthma : studies with a dynamic exposure chamber / Samuel B. Lehrer, Roy J. Rando, and Manuel Lopez -- Airborne contaminants and asthma : the effects of ozone, NO₂, SO₂ endotoxin and diesel particulates on normal & asthmatic lungs / David Peden and Brian Boehlecke -- The role of genetics and indoor allergen exposure in atopic asthma / Kathleen Barnes and Mark C. Liu -- The contribution of genes and environment to asthma / Lanny Rosenwasser.

This text presents research on the causes and mechanisms behind the dramatic increase of asthma in the United States and other nations to epidemic proportions. Investigators from eight research groups in asthma and/or allergy present their findings, funded by the Center for Indoor Air Research.

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