Psychoneuroimmunology: Interactions Between Brain, Nervous System, Behavior, Endocrine and Immune System

This volume contains detailed studies presented by speakers at the Annual Meeting of the EAACI in Zurich in 1991. The main topics regulation of IgE response; allergy and inflammation; mechanisms of autoimmune diseases; lymphocyte activation mechanisms and the role of adhesion molecules; special aspects of the IgE mediated allergic response; prevention of atopy in infancy; the skin as an immune organ; cellular immune mechanisms in asthma; childhood allergy; epidemiology of allergic diseases; cytokines in immunopathology; new diagnostic tests in allergy; new antiallergic and antiasthma drugs; immunological tolerance mechanisms in the respiratory and gastrointestinal tract.