Allergens and allergen immunotherapy /

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Allergen immunotherapy.
Other Authors: Lockey, Richard F., Bukantz, Samuel C.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Marcel Dekker, [1999]
Edition:Second edition, revised and expanded.
Series:Clinical allergy and immunology ; 12.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Allergen immunotherapy in historical perspective
  • Definition of an allergen (immunobiology)
  • Aerobiology
  • Allergen nomenclature
  • Tree pollen allergens
  • Grass pollen allergens
  • Weed pollen allergens
  • Mold allergens
  • Hymenoptera allergens
  • Biting insect allergens
  • Mite allergens
  • Cockroach and other inhalant insect allergens
  • Mammalian allergens
  • Food allergens
  • Latex allergens
  • Drug allergens, haptens, and anaphylatoxins
  • Manufacturing and standardizing allergen vaccines
  • Allergen vaccine unitage based on biological standardization: clinical significance
  • Immunological responses to allergen immunotherapy
  • Efficacy of immunotherapy
  • Patient selection for allergen immunotherapy: when to start and stop
  • Preparing and mixing allergen vaccines - Administration of inhalant allergen vaccines
  • Administering hymenoptera venom and vaccines of biting insect allergens
  • Pharmacoeconomic considerations for allergen immunotherapy
  • Potential new forms of immunotherapy
  • Recombinant allergens: a new form of immunotherapy?
  • Unproven and controversial forms of immunotherapy
  • In vitro tests to monitor efficacy of immunotherapy in IgE-mediated disease
  • In vivo provocation testing for IgE-mediated disease
  • Adverse effects and fatalities associated with allergen immunotherapy
  • Anaphylaxis and anaphylactoid reactions
  • Selected immunotherapy patient instructions and consent forms.