Histamine and inflammation /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Austin :
R.G. Landes,
1994.
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| Series: | Medical intelligence unit.
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Table of Contents:
- Histamine: a general inter- and intracellular messenger molecule
- Biochemistry of histamine
- Chemistry
- Biosynthesis
- Catabolic pathways
- Histamine receptors: biochemistry and molecular biology
- Types of histamine receptors
- Molecular biology of histamine receptors: genes and predicted protein structures
- Intracellular signal transducing characteristics
- Histamine release: cellular sources of histamine
- Mast cells and basophils
- Non-mast cell, non-basophil sources
- Inflammation: the role of histamine.
- Inflammation: a general overview
- Provoking factors: physiological and pathophysiological inducers of inflammation
- Transducing machinery of inflammatory factors
- Hepatic acute phase proteins and their action
- Neuroendocrine interactions in the regulation of inflammation
- Interaction of histamine with cytokine network
- Effect of histamine on cytokine production
- Effect of histamine on cytokine receptor expression
- Effect of histamine on acute phase proteins
- Direct and indirect regulation of complement proteins by histamine.
- Interaction of histamine with fibrinogen and collagen production
- Physiological and pathophysiological significance of histamine
- Major effects of histamine
- Extracellular actions of histamine
- Intracellular actions of histamine
- Histamine and allergy: allergic inflammation
- Asthma
- Allergic rhinitis
- Anaphylaxis
- Urticarias
- Possible medical maneuvers for intervention in allergic reactions
- Avoidance of allergen
- Immunotherapy
- Pharmacotherapy
- Histamine and autoimmunity
- Histamine in malignancies.
- Histamine and malignant cell proliferation
- Histamine agonists and antagonists in tumor therapy
- Role of histamine in normal physiological regulation
- Gastric acid production
- Regulation of vascular permeability
- Muscle contraction
- Immune response
- Neuronal and neuroendocrine functions
- Cellular growth and wound healing
- Hepatic metabolism
- Reproductive biology.