Asthma

Part 1 Environmental and genetic factors: current questions in the epidemiology of asthma, P.G.J. Burney; the pathology of asthma, J. Hogg; the role of allergens, T.A.E. Platts-Mills et al; expression of predisposing factors in early life, P.N. Le Souef. Part 2 Inflammatory cells and their mediators: the molecular biology of mast cell granule proteases and proteoglycans, C.F. Nicodemus and K.F. Austen; differentiation of human mast cells and their involvement in asthma, L.B. Shwartz; development-associated changes in mast cell Fc receptor expression and function, H.R. Katz; the role of basophil-cytokine interactions in asthma, S.M. MacDonald et al; cytokine regulation of eosinophil-mediated inflammatory reactions by modulation of 5-lipoxygenase pathway activity, W.F. Owen. (Part contents).