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Previous Volume 337:1933-1934 December 25, 1997 Number 26

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Second edition. Edited by Allen P. Kaplan. 896 pp., illustrated. Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders, 1997. $120. ISBN 0-7216-4974-2.

Allergic diseases affect 20 percent of the population and are among the most frequent disorders treated by family practitioners, pediatricians, and general internists. This is the reason the editor gives for a second edition of Allergy.

The book has five sections. The first, on the immune system and inflammation, is designed for subspecialists and subspecialists in training. It describes the cells involved in the immune process, the triggers that cause them to release their contents, the mediators of tissue damage, and the cytokines, interleukins, and growth factors through which cells communicate with each other.

The next three sections represent the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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