Allergic Contact Dermatitis The Molecular Basis
Allergic Contact Dermatitis presents all up-to-date chemical and physio-chemical concepts for the study and understanding of allergic contact dermatitis (ACD). The book covers all aspects of ACD - skin penetration and metabolism, identification of sensiti
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J.-P. Lepoittevin D.A. Basketter A. Goossens A.-T. Karlberg {Eds.}
Allergic Contact Dermatitis The Molecular Basis
With a Foreword by R. J. G. Rycroft
With 144 Figures and 7 Tables
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Dr. JEAN-PIERRE LEPOITTEVIN, D. SC. Universite Louis Pasteur, Clinique Dermatologique Laboratoire de Dermatochimie assode au CNRS 1, Place de l'Hopital, F-67091 Strasbourg Cedex, France DAVID A. BAS KETTER Unilever Environmental Safety Laboratory Colworth House, Sharbrook Bedford MK44 lLQ, UK Dr. AN GOOSSENS, Ph.D. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven University Hospital, Department of Dermatology B-3000 Leuven, Belgium Dr. ANN-THERESE KARL BERG, Ph.D. National Institute for Working Life Department of Occupational Dermatology S-I71 84 Solna, Sweden
ISBN-13:978-3-642-80333-8 e-ISBN-13:978-3-642-80331-4 DOl: 10.1007/978-3-642-80331-4 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data. Allergic contact dermatitis: the molecular basis/J.-P. Lepoittevin ... let al.J (eds.). p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index-ISBN-13:978-3-642-80333-8 (hard-cover)l.Contact dermatitis-Molecular aspects. I. Lepoittevin, J.-P. (Jean-Pierre), 1959- RL244.A38 1997 616.97'307 - dc21 97-28047 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specially the rights of translations, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer-Verlag. Violations are liable for prosecution under the German Copyright Law. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1998 Softcover reprint of the hardcover lst edition
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Foreword
When the European Environmental and Contact Dermatitis Research Group (EECDRG) was founded in 1985, one of its major goals was to set up the European Society of Contact Dermatitis (ESCD) and to enable working parties of the ESCD progressively to take over much that had previously been undertaken by contact dermatitis research groups. It is therefore a particular pleasure to me, as a found
