Amazon.com description: Product Description: Focusing on the complex process of the acute immunologic response, this timely book details current research involving humoral and cellular components, serving as a convenient and concise summary of advances in the study of the pathophysiology of allergy. A tribute to K. Frank Austen, whose pioneering research is acknowledged worldwide, the volume contains contributions from investigators in the United States, Africa, Australia, Europe, Israel, and Japan. It covers the considerable progress made in the study of allergic reactions, with attention to such topics as arachidonic acid metabolism; mast cells and eosinophils; phagocytes and proteases; phylogeny of the plasma regulatory proteins of the complement system; mastocytosis; modulation of allergic response by fish oil lipids; and much more.