
Landmark Papers in Allergy: Seminal Papers in Allergy with Expert Commentaries
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- Cover
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Contributors
- Timeline
- Section I: 1800-1899
- 1 Did Bostock discover allergic rhinitis?
- Case of a periodical affection of the eyes and chest (1819)
- 2 Early insights into the characteristics of asthma
- An analysis of a hundred and fifty unpublished cases of asthma No 1. The influence of sex and age in determining the liability to asthma (1866)
- 3 Identifying asthma triggers
- An analysis of a hundred and fifty unpublished cases of asthma No 2. On the immediate excitants of the asthmatic paroxysm (1866)
- 4 Innovative experiments which helped to unravel the aetiological basis of hay fever
- Experimental researches on the causes and nature of catarrhus aestivus (hay-fever and hay-asthma) (1873)
- 5 Could two very different conditions share a similar pathophysiology?
- Bronchial asthma in the principles and practice of medicine (1892)
- Section II: 1900-1949
- 6 What's in a name? First use of the term 'allergy'
- Allergie (1906)
- 7 An innovative treatment for food allergy
- A case of egg poisoning (1908)
- 8 Laying the foundation for specific immunotherapy
- Prophylactic inoculation against hay fever (1911)
- 9 Celebrating the case study: Schloss' description of atopic dermatitis
- A case of allergy to common foods (1912)
- 10 Richet's Nobel Lecture
- Anaphylaxis: Nobel Lecture (1913)
- 11 A serendipitous discovery
- The anaphylactic reaction of plain muscle in the guinea-pig (1913)
- 12 Cooke's early insights into the potentially curative role of immunotherapy for hay fever
- The treatment of hay fever by active immunization (1915)
- 13 Does eczema have an allergic aetiology?
- Cutaneous reaction from proteins in eczema (1916)
- 14 . . . and what about angioedema and urticaria?
- Causation of eczema, urticaria, and angioneurotic edema by proteins other than those derived from food: study xviii (1918)
- 15 Prausnitz, Küstner, and the first diagnostic test for allergy
- Studies on supersensitivity (1921)
- 16 Introducing atopy
- On the classification of the phenomena of hypersensitiveness (1923)
- 17 Ephedra-laying the foundations for modern autonomic pharmacology
- The action of ephedrine, the active principle of the Chinese drug Ma Huang (1924)
- 18 First attempts to unravel the relationship between diet and allergy
- The influence of breast and artificial feeding on infantile eczema (1936)
- 19 Demonstrating serological changes induced by ragweed extract
- Studies on immunity in a type of human allergy (hay fever): serologic response of non-sensitive individuals to pollen injections (1937)
- 20 Bovet's Nobel Prize-winning discovery of antihistamines
- Action protectrice des éthers phénoliques au cours de l'intoxication histaminique (Protective action of phenolic ethers on the course of histamine intoxication) (1937)
- 21 Identification of slow-reacting substance
- The liberation of a slow-reacting smooth muscle-stimulating substance in anaphylaxis (1940)
- 22 Oral allergy syndrome
- Studies in food allergy: II. Sensitization to fresh fruits: clinical and experimental observations (1942)
- Section III: 1950-1999
- 23 In praise of famous men: early cortisone studies
- The effect of cortisone on bronchial asthma and hay fever occurring in subjects sensitive to ragweed pollen (1950)
- 24 The relationship between mast cells and histamine
- The presence of histamine in tissue mast cells (1953)
- 25 What goes round comes around: developing allergen immunotherapy
- Prophylaxis of summer hay-fever and asthma: a controlled trial comparing crude grass-pollen extract with the isolated main protein component (1954)
- 26 Burnet, clonal selection theory, and acquired immunological tolerance
- Auto-immune disease. I. Modern immunological concepts (1959)
- 27 Slow-reacting substance of anaphylaxis
- The release of histamine and formation of a slow-reacting substance (SRS-A) during anaphylactic shock (1960)
- 28 Loveless and wasp-venom immunotherapy
- Immunization in wasp-sting allergy through venom repositories and periodic stings (1962)
- 29 Developing an understanding of mast cell biology
- Mechanisms of immunologic injury of rat peritoneal mast cells (1966)
- 30 Disodium cromoglycate for allergic asthma
- A double-blind trial of disodium cromoglycate in the treatment of allergic bronchial asthma (1967)
- 31 Ancient Egyptian soup for treating asthma: Cox and Intal
- Disodium cromoglycate (FPL 670) ('Intal'): a specific inhibitor of reaginic antibody-antigen mechanisms (1967)
- 32 RAST: Iconic test for allergic sensitization
- Diagnosis of allergy by an in-vitro test for allergen antibodies (1967)
- 33 The discovery of IgE
- Identification of ?E-antibodies as a carrier of reaginic activity (1967) and Gunnar Johansson and Hans Bennich: Studies on a new class of human immunoglobulins. I. Immunological properties (1967)
- 34 Penicillin allergy: a model for practical clinical translational science
- The relationship between direct immediate skin tests and passive transfer tests in man: studies in the penicillin allergy system (1967)
- 35 Unravelling the relationship between Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus and asthma
- The house-dust mite (Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus) and the allergens it produces. Identity with the house-dust allergen (1967)
- 36 The Gell-Coombs classification
- Classification of allergic reactions responsible for clinical hypersensitivity and disease (1968)
- 37 The dawn of molecular allergology
- Immunoglobulin E, a new class of human immunoglobulin (1968)
- 38 Immunotherapy can change the natural history of respiratory allergy
- The value of hyposensitization therapy for bronchial asthma in children: a 14-year study (1968)
- 39 Anatomy of the asthmatic bronchi
- A comparison of the quantitative anatomy of the bronchi in normal subjects, in status asthmaticus, in chronic bronchitis, and in emphysema (1969)
- 40 Identifying a novel cause of occupational allergy
- Pulmonary disease due to inhalation of derivatives of Bacillus subtilis containing proteolytic enzyme (1969)
- 41 Delayed hypersensitivity to pollen allergens
- Cell-mediated (delayed) hypersensitivity in patients with summer hay fever (1969)
- 42 Inhaled beclomethasone dipropionate: stepping-up asthma care
- Beclomethasone dipropionate: a new steroid aerosol for the treatment of allergic asthma (1972)
- 43 Challenging notions of the 'atopic personality'
- Infantile eczema (1976)
- 44 Establishing and investigating the relationship between food allergy and asthma
- Objective clinical and laboratory studies of immediate hypersensitivity reactions to foods in asthmatic children (1976)
- 45 The histamine-inhalational test
- Bronchial reactivity to inhaled histamine: a method and clinical survey (1977)
- 46 Allergic reactions to colloid infusions-another chapter in the colloid debate
- Incidence and severity of anaphylactoid reactions to colloid volume substitutes (1977)
- 47 Total and specific IgE and allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis
- Evidence that Aspergillus fumigatus growing in the airway of man can be a potent stimulus of specific and nonspecific IgE formation (1977)
- 48 Immunotherapy for venom allergy comes of age
- A controlled trial of immunotherapy in insect hypersensitivity (1978)
- 49 Extending the evidence for immunotherapy to the management of children with house-dust-mite-triggered asthma
- Controlled trial of hyposensitisation to Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus in children with asthma (1978)
- 50 Insights from Xhosa children into environmental risk factors for the development of asthma
- Prevalence of asthma: a comparative study of urban and rural Xhosa children (1979)
- 51 Viral infection, allergic sensitization, and asthma
- Development of allergy in children: I. association with virus infections (1979)
- 52 Immune responses in atopic eczema
- Basophils in allergen-induced patch test sites in atopic dermatitis (1982)
- 53 Understanding the relationship between atopic sensitization and airway hyperresponsiveness in asthma
- Allergen-induced increase in bronchial responsiveness to histamine: relationship to the late asthmatic response and change in airway caliber (1982)
- 54 Key insights into the relationship between food allergy and atopic dermatitis
- Role of immediate food hypersensitivity in the pathogenesis of atopic dermatitis (1983)
- 55 From slow-reacting substance of anaphylaxis to anti-leukotrienes
- Leukotrienes: mediators of immediate hypersensitivity reactions and inflammation (1983)
- 56 Once more unto the breach: the role of the damaged bronchial epithelium in asthma
- Damage of the airway epithelium and bronchial reactivity in patients with asthma (1985)
- 57 Management of anaphylactic shock
- Clinical observations on the pathophysiology and treatment of anaphylactic cardiovascular collapse (1986)
- 58 The hygiene hypothesis
- Hay fever, hygiene, and household size (1989)
- 59 In search of the elixir for childhood allergy and asthma prevention
- Exposure to house-dust mite allergen (Der p I) and the development of asthma in childhood (1990)
- 60 A new way of considering 'quality of life'
- Development and testing of a new measure of health status for clinical trials in rhinoconjunctivitis (1991)
- 61 Food allergy and anaphylaxis
- Fatal and near-fatal anaphylactic reactions to food in children and adolescents (1992)
- 62 Allergen avoidance: the Isle of Wight study
- Effect of allergen avoidance on development of allergic disorders in infancy (1992)
- 63 Introducing sputum counts
- Use of induced sputum cell counts to investigate airway inflammation in asthma (1992)
- 64 Atopic asthma is a TH2-cell-mediated disease
- Predominant TH2-like bronchoalveolar T-lymphocyte population in atopic asthma (1992)
- 65 Investigating the impact of hay fever on educational performance
- Seasonal allergic rhinitis and antihistamine effects on children's learning (1992)
- 66 Findings from an early peanut immunotherapy trial
- Treatment of peanut allergy with rush immunotherapy (1992)
- 67 Auto-immune mechanisms in chronic urticaria
- Autoantibodies against the high-affinity IgE receptor as a cause of histamine release in chronic urticaria (1993)
- 68 Air pollution, mortality, and the need for public health policy
- An association between air pollution and mortality in six US cities (1993)
- 69 The geography of asthma and atopy: after the Berlin wall came down
- Prevalence of asthma and atopy in two areas of West and East Germany (1994)
- 70 The role of animal allergens in allergic disease
- Quantitative assessment of exposure to dog (Can f 1) and cat (Fel d 1) allergens: Relation to sensitization and asthma among children living in Los Alamos, New Mexico (1995)
- 71 The natural history of wheezing: the Tucson cohort
- Asthma and wheezing in the first six years of life (1995)
- 72 Measuring food-specific IgE values
- Relationship between food-specific IgE concentrations and the risk of positive food challenges in children and adolescents (1997)
- 73 Tuberculosis exposure and atopy
- The inverse association between tuberculin responses and atopic disorder (1997)
- 74 The inner-city home environment and asthma
- The role of cockroach allergy and exposure to cockroach allergen in causing morbidity among inner-city children with asthma (1997)
- 75 Mapping the burden of allergic disease in childhood: ISAAC
- Worldwide variation in prevalence of symptoms of asthma, allergic rhinoconjunctivitis, and atopic eczema: ISAAC (1998)
- 76 The relationship between obesity and asthma
- Prospective study of body mass index, weight change, and risk of adult-onset asthma in women (1999)
- 77 The emergence of monoclonal antibodies
- Treatment of allergic asthma with monoclonal anti-IgE antibody (1999)
- 78 The renaissance in allergen immunotherapy
- Long-term clinical efficacy of grass-pollen immunotherapy (1999)
- 79 Pet exposure in early life and the development of allergy and asthma
- Does early exposure to cat or dog protect against later allergy development? (1999)
- Section IV: 2000-2012
- 80 Predicting the development of childhood asthma
- A clinical index to define risk of asthma in young children with recurrent wheezing (2000)
- 81 Role of eosinophils in asthma
- Effects of an interleukin-5 blocking monoclonal antibody on eosinophils, airway hyperresponsiveness, and the late asthmatic response (2000)
- 82 Learning from anaphylaxis fatalities
- Lessons for management of anaphylaxis from a study of fatal reactions (2000)
- 83 Peanut allergy and quality of life
- The psychological burden of peanut allergy as perceived by adults with peanut allergy and the parents of peanut-allergic children (2000)
- 84 The Janus face of endotoxin: for good and bad?
- Relation between house-dust endotoxin exposure, type 1 T-cell development, and allergen sensitisation in infants at high risk of asthma (2000)
- 85 Testing the 'hygiene hypothesis': probiotics for the primary prevention of atopic eczema
- Probiotics in primary prevention of atopic disease: a randomised, placebo-controlled trial (2001)
- 86 The impact of food allergy on health-related quality of life
- The impact of childhood food allergy on quality of life (2001)
- 87 Does idiopathic eosinophilic esophagitis have an allergic aetiology?
- Idiopathic eosinophilic esophagitis is associated with a TH2-type allergic inflammatory response (2001)
- 88 Dawn of the genomic age for asthma
- Association of the ADAM33 gene with asthma and bronchial hyperresponsiveness (2002)
- 89 Endotoxins, allergy, and tolerance
- Environmental exposure to endotoxin and its relation to asthma in school-age children (2002)
- 90 Inherited skin-barrier defects and risk of developing 'atopic' eczema
- Common loss-of-function variants of the epidermal barrier protein filaggrin are a major predisposing factor for atopic dermatitis (2006)
- 91 Anti-IgE: biologicals reach the inner cities
- Randomized trial of omalizumab (anti-IgE) for asthma in inner-city children (2011)
- Section V: Conclusions
- 92 From the 18th to the 21st century, and beyond . . .
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