
Allergens and Respiratory Pollutants
The Role of Innate Immunity
- 1st Edition - July 18, 2011
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Editor: Marc A. Williams
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 1 0 1 7 1 6 - 6
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 9 0 7 5 6 8 - 5 4 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 9 0 8 8 1 8 - 0 6 - 5
Allergens and respiratory pollutants is a collection of 12 authoritative papers that draws upon the collective expertise of world leaders in the fields of innate immunity,… Read more
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- Discusses recent advances in our understanding of cell-mediated innate immune mechanisms that occur during allergic inflammation and provides important timely coverage of diseases of concern and how such diseases are influenced by a dysfunctional immune system
- Provides useful information on linking environmental 'danger signals' that provoke immune dysfunction and exacerbation of existing disease
- Draws upon the collective expertise of an international college of leaders in the field, but also provides chapters that provide essential reference material
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Chapter 1: An introduction to allergic inflammation and the innate immune sensing of dangerous ambient pollutants by the dendritic cell
Chapter 2: Asthma: primary immunomodulatory pathways
Chapter 3: Environmental lung injury and pattern recognition receptors
Chapter 4: Asthma exacerbations: a paradigm of synergy between allergens, pollutants and viruses
Chapter 5: Bronchial hyperresponsiveness and lung inflammation induced by allergic immune response and oxidative stress: role of innate and adaptive immune responses
Chapter 6: Effects of air pollutants on allergic sensitization through the airway
Chapter 7: Particulate matter and oxidative stress: dangerous partners in inflammation, vascular dysfunction and innate immunity
Chapter 8: Diesel exhaust particles and the airway epithelial cell - dendritic cell interface in the control of immune homeostasis
Chapter 9: Role of macrophages in adverse pulmonary effects of particulate pollutants
Chapter 10: Particulate air pollution and vulnerability to respiratory infections in children
Chapter 11: The intersection of respiratory syncytial virus infection, innate immunity and allergic lung disease
Chapter 12: Interactions between allergens and dendritic cells: pattern recognition receptors and their function in the pathogenesis of allergic respiratory diseases
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- Edition: 1
- Published: July 18, 2011
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Language: English
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