: Landes Bioscience ;New York :Springer Science+Business Media,
, c2010.
1 online resource (xviii, 143 p.)
: , ill.
(Advances in experimental medicine and biology
; v. 709.)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
One hundred years of histamine research / Katherine Figueroa and Nigel Shankley -- Molecular pharmacology of the four histamine receptors / Gerold Bongers, Iwan de Esch, and Rob Leurs -- Histamine synthesis and lessons learned from histidine decarboxylase deficient mice / Hiroshi Ohtsu -- Histamine in allergic rhinitis / Thomas Taylor-Clark -- The role of histamine in ocular allergy / Masaharu Ohbayashi ... [et al.] -- The role of histamine in asthma / Paul J. Dunford and Stephen T. Holgate -- Antihistamines in the treatment of urticaria / Torsten Zuberbier and Marcus Maurer -- Histamine and antihistamines in atopic dermatitis / Jrg Buddenkotte, Marcus Maurer, and Martin Steinhoff -- Histamine, immune cells, and autoimmunity / Elke Schneider, Maria Leite-de-Moraes, and Michel Dy -- Histamine in neurotransmission and brain diseases / Saara Nuutinen and Pertti Panula -- Histamine in normal and malignant cell proliferation / Andras Falus, Zoltn Ps, and Zsuzsanna Darvas -- The future antihistamines : histamine H3 and H4 receptor ligands / Fuqu Yu, Pascal Bonaventure, and Robin L. Thurmond.