Sommario

• • ·CME activities calendar

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• • ·Index to advertisers

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• • ·Opportunities available

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• Updates on cells and cytokines

  • ·Interleukin-4 and its receptor: Essentialmediators of the allergic response

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    John J. Ryan

    

• Clinical aspects of allergic disease

  • ·Childhood antecedents of allergicsensitization in young British adults

    Pagina :6-12

    David P. Strachan, Leigh S. Harkins, Ian D.A. Johnston, H. Ross Anderson

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  • ·A twelve-week comparison of salmeterol and salbutamol in the treatment of mild-to-moderate asthma: A Canadian multicenter study

    Pagina :13-21

    Louis-Philippe Boulet, Michel Laviolette, Serge Boucher, Allan Knight, Jacques Hébert, Kenneth R. Chapman

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  • ·A cost of illness study of allergic rhinitis inthe United States

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    Daniel C. Malone, Kenneth A. Lawson, David H. Smith, H. Michael Arrighi, Carmelina Battista

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• Respiratory pathophysiologic responses

  • ·Differential efficacy of lymphocyte- and monocyte-selective pretreatment with a type 4 phosphodiesterase inhibitor on antigen-driven proliferation and cytokine gene expression

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    David M. Essayan, Shau-Ku Huang, Anne Kagey-Sobotka, Lawrence M. Lichtenstein

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• Allergens, IgE, mediators, inflammatorymechanisms

  • ·Failure of aged rats to accumulate eosinophils in allergic inflammation of the airway

    Pagina :38-47

    Takeshi Yagi, Atsuhiko Sato, Hiroshi Hayakawa, Kyohtaro Ide

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  • ·Restoration of the mucociliary clearance ofthe maxillary sinus after endoscopic sinus surgery

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    Katsuhisa Ikeda, Takeshi Oshima, Masayuki Furukawa, Yukio Katori, Akira Shimomura, Tomonori Takasaka, Shin Maruoka

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  • ·High frequency of a deletion polymorphismof the angiotensin-converting enzyme gene in asthma

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    Joelle Benessiano, Bruno Crestani, Fouzi Mestari, Wassila Klouche, Françoise Neukirch, Salima Hacein-Bey, Genevieve Durand, Michel Aubier

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  • ·Nasal nitric oxide is increased in patientswith asthma and allergic rhinitis and may be modulated by nasal glucocorticoids

    Pagina :58-64

    Sergei A. Kharitonov, Karalasingam Rajakulasingam, Brian O'Connor, Stephen R. Durham, Peter J. Barnes

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  • ·A comparison of cytokine release fromepithelial cells cultured from nasal biopsy specimens of atopic patients with and without rhinitis and nonatopic subjects without rhinitis

    Pagina :65-76

    Moisés A. Calderón, Jagdish L. Devalia, Andrew J. Prior, Raymond J. Sapsford, Robert J. Davies

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  • ·Treatment with hot, humid air reduces thenasal response to allergen challenge

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    Martin Desrosiers, Fuad M. Baroody, David Proud, Lawrence M. Lichtenstein, Anne Kagey-Sobotka, Robert M. Naclerio

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  • ·Late allergic airway response to segmental bronchopulmonary provocation in allergic subjects is related to peripheral blood basophil histamine release

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    Nizar N. Jarjour, Julie B. Sedgwick, Cheri A. Swensen, William W. Busse

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  • ·IgE and mast cell responses on intestinalallergen exposure: A murine model to study the onset of food allergy

    Pagina :94-99

    Astrid G.S. van Halteren, Maarten J.F. van der Cammen, Jeike Biewenga, Huub F.J. Savelkoul, Georg Kraal

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  • ·Major cat and dog allergens share IgE epitopes

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    Susanne Spitzauer, Budhi Pandjaitan, Sonja Mühl, Christof Ebner, Dietrich Kraft, Rudolf Valenta, Helmut Rumpold

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  • ·Dust and airborne exposure to allergensderived from cockroach (Blattella germanica) in low-cost public housing in Strasbourg (France)

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    Frédéric de Blay, José Sanchez, Guy Hedelin, Antonio Perez-Infante, Angèle Vérot, Martin Chapman, Gabrielle Pauli

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• Immunodeficiency and other clinical immunology

  • ·Promotion of mouse fibroblast proliferationby IgE-dependent activation of mouse mast cells: Role for mast cell tumor necrosis factor-α and transforming growth factor-β1

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    Jane C. Kendall, Xiao-Hong Li, Stephen J. Galli, John R. Gordon

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  • ·Milk-responsive atopic dermatitis is associated with a casein-specific lymphocyte response in adolescent and adult patients

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    Thomas Werfel, Gudrun Ahlers, Petra Schmidt, Martin Boeker, Alexander Kapp, Christine Neumann

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  • ·Analysis of an exon 1 polymorphism of theB2 bradykinin receptor gene and its transcript in normal subjects and patients with C1 inhibitor deficiency

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    Chien-Cheng Lung, Edward K.L. Chan, Bruce L. Zuraw

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• Brief communication

  • ·Asthma caused by Dermestidae (black carpet beetle): A new allergen in house dust

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    Javier Cuesta-Herranz, Manolo de las Heras, Joaquin Sastre, Magdalena Lluch, Manolo Fernández, Carlos Lahoz, Emilio Alvarez-Cuesta

    
  • ·Evaluation of duotip-test

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    Steven V. Stryk, Raymond G. Slavin

    
  • ·Acetaminophen-induced urticariaand tolerance of ibuprofen in an eight-year-old child

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    Dennis R. Ownby

    
  • ·Fatal anaphylaxis after a yellow jacket sting, despite venom immunotherapy, in two patients with mastocytosis

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    Joanne N.G. Oude Elberink, Jan G.R. de Monchy, John W. Kors, Jaap J. van Doormaal, Anthony E.J. Dubois

    

• Newsview

  • ·A monthly update of developments from the academy

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