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Edited by Richard L. Kradin and Bruce W.S. Robinson. 578 pp., illustrated. Boston, Butterworth–Heinemann, 1996. $160. ISBN 0-7506-9282-0.

Recently, there have been astounding advances in immunology with the introduction of molecular biology into this discipline. The application of this new knowledge to specific organs, such as the lung, has necessarily lagged behind, but this book attempts to provide an overview of pulmonary immunology, with particular emphasis on immunologic mechanisms in pulmonary diseases. The lungs are at the interface between the environment and the body, and in fulfilling their primary role of a gas exchanger with a delicate epithelial surface suited to gaseous diffusion, they are exposed to many noxious and infectious agents and antigens in inhaled air. Furthermore, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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