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Allergy Frontiers: Epigenetics, Allergens and Risk Factors

By U. Wahn (auth.) , Ruby Pawankar , Stephen T. Holgate , Lanny J. Rosenwasser (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer Tokyo
Year
2009
ISBN
4431728015, 9784431728016
DOI
10.1007/978-4-431-72802-3
LCC
RC584 .A518 2009
Open Library ID
OL23686762M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (11992533 bytes)
Series
Allergy Frontiers 1
Volume
1
Edition
1
Pages
442\440
Topic
Biology Genetics
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07
Allergology; Immunology

Description

When I entered the field of allergy in the early 1970s, the standard textbook was a few hundred pages, and the specialty was so compact that texts were often authored entirely by a single individual and were never larger than one volume. Compare this with Allergy Frontiers: Epigenetics, Allergens, and Risk Factors, the present s- volume text with well over 150 contributors from throughout the world. This book captures the explosive growth of our specialty since the single-author textbooks referred to above. The unprecedented format of this work lies in its meticulous attention to detail yet comprehensive scope. For example, great detail is seen in manuscripts dealing with topics such as “Exosomes, naturally occurring minimal antigen presenting units” and “Neuropeptide S receptor 1 (NPSR1), an asthma susceptibility gene.” The scope is exemplified by the unique approach to disease entities normally dealt with in a single chapter in most texts. For example, anaphylaxis, a topic usually confined to one chapter in most textbooks, is given five chapters in Allergy Frontiers. This approach allows the text to employ multiple contributors for a single topic, giving the reader the advantage of being introduced to more than one vi- point regarding a single disease.

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