Allergy and Immunology Experimental Techniques (Second Edition)

Author: Qiao Bingshan (Editor)
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Publish Date: 2002-08-01
Features: This book is written by Professor Qiao Bingshan, a renowned expert in allergology from Peking Union Medical College Hospital. It was first published by Science Press in 1990 and has been reprinted multiple times. To adapt to social development and scientific progress, the author has comprehensively revised and supplemented the entire book. The book is divided into 17 chapters, most of which have been rewritten. The main difference is that it focuses on the collection, cultivation, identification of allergen raw materials, and introduction to related basic biological knowledge. Clinical allergology differs from other clinical medical disciplines in that its most distinctive feature lies in its unique laboratory techniques. It can be asserted that an excellent clinical allergology practice is inevitably accompanied by an excellent allergology laboratory. Because the allergology laboratory provides all important means for diagnosis and treatment of allergies, including high-potency diagnostic and therapeutic allergens, various specific and non-specific in vivo and in vitro tests, as well as daily tracking and monitoring of airborne allergens. In recent years, due to advancements in immunology, new content has been added to allergology experimental techniques, such as new processes for allergen preparation, new methods for allergen standardization, various enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs), radioimmunoassays (RIAs), and fluorescence immunoassays for the microdetermination of allergenic active mediators, immunoglobulin and complement measurements, allergen challenge tests, blood concentration measurements of various special drugs, and high-precision pulmonary function tests. These new developments have made allergology experimental techniques an extremely active field within the scope of allergology. The author has been engaged in allergology experimental techniques for over 20 years and has accumulated extensive experience, particularly in atmospheric biology. Due to his diligence, he has creatively established a set of allergology experimental techniques suitable for China's conditions. Now, he has summarized this into a book to provide it to colleagues in China working in allergology, allowing more people to share his valuable experience, which will undoubtedly play a significant role in advancing the development of allergology experimental techniques in China. The book includes 17 chapters, covering the collection, preparation, and detection methods of allergens, experimental methods in aerobiology (airology), experimental methods in mycobiology (airology), biological characteristics of common allergenic insects in indoor environments, air biology imaging techniques, the preparation and sterilization techniques of bacterial vaccines. It provides a detailed description of the fundamental theories, basic methods, and operational key points of allergology laboratory techniques.