Mast Cells and Basophils : Development, Activation and Roles in Allergic/Autoimmune Disease

0470013125. Pictorial board hardcover, from closed pharmaceutical company library. Lending record shows this book has never been borrowed. 259 pages, index, illustrated with charts, tables and diagrams. The discussions from a symposium held at the novartis Foundation, London, November 2004. Includes advances relating to the factors and mechanisms that regulate the growth, differentiation and function of mast cells and basophils; discussion of new technologies used to study these cells, and integration of the basic scientific findings in the context of therapeutic possibilities for the treatment of diseases such as allergic inflammation and autoimmune disease which are mediated, in part, by these granulocytes. Contents as new, clean, tight and bright.