This text provides the reader with a comprehensive survey of the most clinically relevant aspects of human basophils and mast cells and their mediators in health and disease. The contributions cover disorders, such as mastocytosis and respiratory and cutaneous allergy, associated with cells. The less well-known involvement of the latter in atherosclerosis and gastrointestinal, cardiac, rheumatic and neoplastic diseases is emerging as an area of considerable interest as several chapters show.
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This text provides the reader with a comprehensive survey of the most clinically relevant aspects of human basophils and mast cells and their mediators in health and disease. The contributions cover disorders, such as mastocytosis and respiratory and cutaneous allergy, associated with cells. The less well-known involvement of the latter in atherosclerosis and gastrointestinal, cardiac, rheumatic and neoplastic diseases is emerging as an area of considerable interest as several chapters show.
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