Allergy of the respiratory tract.

ABSTRACT

The past year has seen significant advances in several fields of asthma and allergy research. Notable among these advances were the following the demonstration that inflammatory granulocytes may be a source of cytokines; an increased understanding of the inter-relationships between the inflammatory cells invading the asthmatic bronchial mucosa; some important new approaches to asthma therapy; and the beginnings of a systematic classification of the structure of allergens and their antigenic epitopes.