This text covers the deterioration of the immune responses in the lungs, whether from cancer, infection, vascular disease or any source. It contains current clinical and scientific research.
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978-0-7506-9282-3 (9780750692823)
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Part 1 The pulmonary immune response; determinants of T-cell motility in the lung; immunopathology of acute pulmonary inflammation; pulmonary macrophages; dendritic cells in the lung; immunology and immunotherapy of allergic diseases; mechanisms of asthma; implications for treatment; immunology of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis; hypersensitivity pneumonitis in humans and experimental animals; the pathogenesis of pulmonary manifestations of connective tissue diseases; sardoidosis; Langerham's cell granulomatosis; pulmonary vasculitis; immunopathology of tuberculosis; host defences in pulmonary cryptococcosis; lessons from a mouse model; the spectrum of pulmonary responses to aspergillus; immunopathology of pulmonary parasitic disease; immunology of pneumocystis Carinii infection; immunopathology of HIV infection and the lung; immunopathology of asbestos-related lung disease; immunopathogenesis of silicosis; the immune response of lung tumours and the effects of cytokine administration on pulmonary immune cells; the immunology and immunopathology of malignant mesothelioma; the immunopathology of lung transplantation; bronchoalveolar lavage; new techniques for evaluating lung immunology and immunopathology.