Immunodermatology
Published on 27. December 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
XLII, 717 pages
978-1-4615-7230-5 (ISBN)
Description
By 1940, immunological mechanisms had been proved to have fundamental influ ences on a great number and variety of skin reactions, and skin diseases had brought to light a great number of fundamental immunological mechanisms that were basic to a wide range of different diseases, dermatological and nondermato logical. The preeminence of dermatological research in the advancement of immu nological knowledge should not astonish anyone. For the skin is not only the most easily accessible tissue for producing and studying immunological reactions, it is also the great organ of protection that meets the first onslaughts of inimical environmental forces and agents-potential enemies, both living and dead. And protection is in essence what immunology is all about. To get an idea of the long-established role that testing the skin and the study of its many reactions has played in advancing general immunology, one need recall only smallpox vaccination; tuberculin testing; testing with fungal extracts; skin testing in hay fever, asthma, and serum sickness; skin tests with toxins and toxoids; the patch test; the passive transfer of skin-adhering antibodies (reagins); skin sensitization by simple chemicals; and similar dermatological procedures that have exerted their influence on medical and scientific disciplines far beyond dermatology.
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Series
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1981
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
156 s/w Abbildungen, 4 farbige Abbildungen
XLII, 717 p. 160 illus., 4 illus. in color.
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 41 mm
Weight
1409 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4615-7230-5 (9781461572305)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4615-7228-2
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Bijan Safai | Robert A. Good
Temporary Title 19991103
Book
02/1981
Plenum Publishing Corporation
€111.07
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Content
1 Cell-Mediated Immunity.- 2 Antigens and Immunogens.- 3 Humoral Immunity in Comprehensive Immunology.- 4 The Complement System: Mechanisms of Action, Biology, and Participation in Dermatological Diseases.- 5 Mechanisms of Nonspecific Host Resistance.- 6 The HLA System and Dermatological Diseases.- 7 Natural Control over Immune Responses.- 8 Mechanisms of Tissue Injuries and Repairs in Hypersensitivity.- 9 Cyclic Nucleotides, Arachidonic Acid, and Polyamines in the Pathophysiology of Inflammatory Proliferative Skin Diseases.- 10 Prostaglandins and Other Arachidonate Metabolites.- 11 Role of Proteinases in Cutaneous Inflammation.- 12 Collagen Biosynthesis and Connective Tissue Abnormalities.- 13 Vasculitis.- 14 Adverse Drug Reactions.- 15 The Graft-vs.-Host Reaction in Man: Genetics, Clinical Features, and Immunopathology.- 16 Allergic Contact Dermatitis, Photoallergic Contact Dermatitis, and Phototoxic Dermatitis.- 17 Urticaria/Angioedema: The Mast Cell, Its Diverse Mediators, and Its Role in Cutaneous Inflammation.- 18 Eosinophil in Skin Disorders.- 19 Atopic Dermatitis.- 20 Autoimmunity.- 21 Immunopathology and Pathogenesis of Cutaneous Lupus Erythematosus.- 22 Other Disorders with Autoimmune Manifestations.- 23 Recurrent Aphthous Stomatitis and Behçet's Syndrome.- 24 Alopecia Areata.- 25 Vesiculobullous Skin Diseases.- 26 Dermatitis Herpetiformis.- 27 Syndromes Resembling Scalding of the Skin.- 28 Primary Immunodeficiency Diseases of Man.- 29 Deficiency of Phagocyte Function and Related Disorders.- 30 Acrodermatitis Enteropathica and the Immunological Role of Zinc.- 31 Mechanisms of Granuloma Formation.- 32 Role of Langerhans Cells in Cutaneous Immunological Reactions.- 33 Sarcoidosis.- 34 Chronic Mucocutaneous Candidiasis.- 35 Dermatophytosis.- 36 Immunology ofLeprosy and Related Chronic Infections of the Skin.- 37 Herpesvirus Infections.- 38 Kaposi's Sarcoma.- 39 Malignant Melanoma: Current Status of the Search for Melanoma-Specific Antigens.- 40 The Cutaneous Plasma Cell Dyscrasias.- 41 The Cutaneous Amyloidoses.- 42 Cutaneous T-Cell Lymphomas.- 43 Transplantation Immunology.- 44 Immunotherapy of Skin Cancer and Other Neoplasms Involving the Skin.- 45 Immunological Parameters in Photocarcinogenesis.- 46 Therapeutic Approaches to Immunological Diseases.