Allergens and allergen immunotherapy /
| Uniform Title: | Allergen immunotherapy. |
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| Other Authors: | , |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Marcel Dekker,
[1999]
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| 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.