Allergy Frontiers: Therapy and Prevention
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
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Ruby Pawankar • Stephen T. Holgate Lanny J. Rosenwasser Editors
Allergy Frontiers: Therapy and Prevention Volume 5
Editors Ruby Pawankar, M.D., Ph.D. Nippon Medical School 1-1-5 Sendagi, Bunkyo-ku Tokyo Japan
Lanny J. Rosenwasser, M.D. Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics UMKC School of Medicine 2401 Gillham Road Kansas City, MO 64108 USA
Stephen T. Holgate, M.D., Ph.D. University of Southampton Southampton General Hospital Tremona Road Southampton UK
ISBN: 978-4-431-99361-2 e-ISBN: 978-4-431-99362-9 DOI 10.1007/978-4-431-99362-9 Springer Tokyo Berlin Heidelberg New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2009934782 © Springer 2010 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in other ways, and storage in data banks. The use of registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Product liability: The publisher can give no guarantee for information about drug dosage and application thereof contained in this book. In every individual case the respective user must check its accuracy by consulting other pharmaceutical literature. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Foreword
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 sixvolume 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 viewpoint regarding a single disease. This broad scope is further illustrated in the way this text deals with the more frequently encountered disorder, asthma. There are no fewer than 26 chapters dealing with various aspects of this disease. Previously, to obtain such a comprehensive appro
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