This volume contains detailed studies presented by speakers at the Annual Meeting of the EAACI in Zurich in 1991. The main topics are: regulation of IgE response; allergy and inflammation; mechanisms of autoimmune diseases; lymphocyte activation mechanisms and the role of adhesion molecules; special aspects of the IgE mediated allergic response; prevention of atopy in infancy; the skin as an immune organ; cellular immune mechanisms in asthma; childhood allergy; epidemiology of allergic diseases; cytokines in immunopathology; new diagnostic tests in allergy; new antiallergic and antiasthma drugs; immunological tolerance mechanisms in the respiratory and gastrointestinal tract.
