Allergy Frontiers:Future Perspectives

von: Ruby Pawankar, Stephen T. Holgate, Lanny J. Rosenwasser

Springer-Verlag, 2009

ISBN: 9784431993650 , 324 Seiten

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Allergy Frontiers:Future Perspectives


 

Foreword

5

Foreword

7

Foreword

9

Preface

11

Contents

13

Contributors

15

Functional Genomics and Proteomics in Allergy Research

20

Bioinformatics in Allergy: A Powerful Tool Joining Science and Clinical Applications

38

Engineering Allergy Vaccines: Approaches Towards Engineered Allergy Vaccines

50

Reconstructing the Repertoire of Mite Allergens by Recombinant DNA Technology

67

Immunostimulatory (CpG) DNA-Based Therapies for the Treatment of Allergic Disease

83

Peptide-Based Therapeutic Vaccines for Allergic Diseases: Where Do We Stand?

96

NKT Ligand Conjugated Immunotherapy

108

Targeting Th2 Cells in Asthmatic Airways

120

Transgenic Rice for Mucosal Vaccine and Immunotherapy

165

Targeting STAT6 in Atopic Eczema/Dermatitis

183

Mast Cell-Specific Genes as New Drug Targets

195

Neuropeptide S Receptor 1: an Asthma Susceptibility Gene

207

Probiotics in the Treatment of Asthma and Allergy

222

Hypersensitivity Reactions to Nanomedicines: Causative Factors and Optimization of Design Parameters

239

An Environmental Systems Biology Approach to the Study of Asthma

252

Targeting Chemokine Receptors in Allergy

266

Dendritic Cell Vaccines

279

The Use of Microbes and Their Products in Allergy Prevention and Therapy

289

Targeting Insulin-Like Growth Factor-I in Allergen-Induced Airway Inflammation and Remodeling

302

Exosomes: Naturally Occurring Minimal Antigen-Presenting Units

315

Index

330