T-Lymphocyte and Inflammatory Cell Research in Asthma

By Jack H. Taylor and J. A. Karlsson

Asthma is an inflammatory disease of the airway mucosa and drugs like inhaled glucocortcoids are now commonly introduced early in therapy. A characteristic feature of this disease is the vast number of eosinophils in airway tissue, although many other migratory and resident inflammatory cells with the capacity to synthesize and release cytokines and putative asthma mediators are present in the inflamed mucosa. The cross-talk between lymphocytes and these cells and the role of cytokines in complex biological networks are currently areas of intense research."

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0123881706
• ISBN13: 9780123881700
• Release Date: October 1993
• Publisher: Academic Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"