Publisher's Synopsis
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.
