Contributors.Foreword.Preface to Second Edition.Preface to First Edition.Volume 1.Part 1: Disease Classification.1. Asthma: clinical descriptions and definitions (John B.
L. Howell)2. Rhinitis: the spectrum of the disease (Paul B. Van Cauwenberge, De-Yun Wang, Koen J.A.O. Ingels and Claus Bachert)Part 2: Epidemiology.3.
Epidemiology of asthma (Deborah Jarvis and Peter Burney)4. Epidemiology of rhinitis (David P. Strachan)5. Epidemiology of occupational asthma (Moira Chan-Yeung and Jean-Luc Malo)6. Epidemiology of asthma mortality (Neil Pearce, Richard Beasley,Julian Crane and Carl Burgess)Part 3: Genetics.7. Genetic Approaches to studying asthma (Jane Wilkinson)8. Antigen and transgenic modelling of asthma and airways hyperreactivity (Gregory P.
Geba and Jack A. Elias)9. The ust of small animal modesl in the study of asthma (Ivan M. Richards adn Jia En Chin)10. Genetic of atopy (Jane Wilkinson and W. Nartin Howell)11. Genetics of asthma and bronchial hyperresponsiveness (Deborah A. Neyers, Dirkje S.
Postma and Eugene R. Bleecker)12. Genetic and molecular regulation of ß2-adrenergic receptors (Stephen B. Liggett)Part 4: Anatomy, Development and Physiology.13. Nasal Airways (Roanld Eccles)14. Structural, Immunological and neural elements of the normal human airway wall (Peter K. Jeffrey)Part 5: Pathology.
15. The pathology of fatal asthma (Linda J. Holloway, Richard Beasley, William R. Roche and Alan L. James)16. The pathology of asthma of varying severity (William R. Roche)17. Bronchoalveolar lavage in studies of asthma (William J.
Calhoun and Mark C. Liu)18. Nasal polyposis: a model of chronic airways inflammation (Manel Jordana, Koichi Nakano, Atsuko Nakano, Judah Denburg and Claudio Mastruzzo)19. Allergic and non-allergic rhinitis (Morgan Andersson, Lennart Greiff, Christer Svensson and Carl G.A. Persson)Part 6: Mast Cells and Basophils.20. Development and maturation of mast cells and basophils (Menachem Rottem and Dean D.
Metcalfe)21. Mast cells and basophils: IgE and its receptors (Daniel H. Conrad and Thomas F. Huff)22. Human mast cells and basophils: heterogeneity and mediators (Carole A. Oskeritzian and Lawrence B. Schwartz)23. Mechanisms of mast cell activation (Edward S.
Schulman, Rihab R. Yasin and Stephen P. Peters)24. Mast cells in rhinitis (Minoru Okuda)25. Mast cells in asthma (Peter Bradding)26. Basophils in airways disease (Donald W. Macglashan JR)Part 7: Eosinophils.27.
Human eosinophils-development, maturation and functional morphology (Peter F. Weiller and Ann M. Dvorak)28. Mechanism of eosinophil activation (Julie B. Sedgwick and Makoto Nagata)29. Eosinophil mediators (Kimm J. Hamann, Ivor Douglas and Redwan Moqbel)30. The eosinophil and asthma (Gerald J.
Gleich, Cheryl R. Adolphson and Hirohito Kita)31. Eosinophils and rhinitis (Peter H. Hwarth and Susan J. Wilson)Part 8: Neutrophils and Platelets.32. Neutrophils and their mediators in asthma (Peter M. Henson and Sally E.
Wenzel)33. Neutrophils and Asthma (Alerto Papi, Piera Boschetto, Gaetano Caramori adn Leonardo M. Fabbri)34. Platelets (Clive P. Page)Part 9: Lymphocytes.35. Mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue of the lung: localization, numbers and dynamics of lymphoid cells in the five different compartments (Reinhard Pabst)36. Lymphocyte substances in allergic diseases (Sergio Romagnani and Mario Ricci)37.
Cytokines in allergic airway disease (James G. Zanggrilli adn Stephen P. Peters)38. Regulation of immunoglobulin E synthesis (Donata Vercelli and Raif S. Geha)39. The lymphocyte in asthma (Christopher J. Corrigan)40. The lymphocyte in rhinitis (Stephen R.
Durham and Stephen J. Till)41. Functional heterogeneity of T-lymphocytes in the development of airway hyperresponsiveness (Erwin W. Gelfand)Part 10: Macrophages, Monocytes and Dendritic Cells.42. Alveolar macrophages in asthma (William J. Calhoun, Shoobha S. Daftary and Nizar N.
Jarjour)43. Professional antigen-presenting cells (William B. Smith and Patrick G. Holt)44. Antigen presentation in the asthma.