1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910137099603321

Autore

Christiane Hilger

Titolo

Animal allergens [[electronic resource] ] : common protein characteristics featuring their allergenicity / / edited by Christiane Hilger and Annette Kuehn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Frontiers Media SA, 2015

[Place of publication not identified] : , : Frontiers Media SA, , 2015

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (88 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Frontiers research topics

Frontiers in immunology

Soggetti

Immunologic diseases

Allergens

Allergy and immunology

Allergens - immunology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Published in: Frontiers in immunology.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

Among the many molecules present in our environment, some have the property to induce allergic sensitization and IgE-mediated reactions. The analysis of known major animal allergens has shown that most belong to single protein families: lipocalins and serum albumins for inhalant allergens, EF-hand proteins, tropomyosins and caseins for the digestive allergens. The finding that allergens are often clustered in large families may be related to the fact that common structural, biochemical or functional features contribute to their allergenicity, in addition to external adjuvant factors. Currently, there is no curative treatment for animal allergy available. In order to lower allergic reactions to respiratory allergens in daily life and to food allergens upon accidental exposure, it is important to desensitize concerned patients. Tolerance induction by allergen-specific immunotherapy is in the current focus of an ambitious research. This Research Topic aims to provide a comprehensive view of the basic and recent insights on the allergenicity of animal allergens in view of their structural and



functional aspects as well as allergen-specific immunotherapy.

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996248189403316

Autore

Kirby Lynne

Titolo

Parallel tracks : the railroad and silent cinema / / Lynne Kirby [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, : Duke University Press, c1997

ISBN

0-8223-1839-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 338 p. ) : ill. ;

Disciplina

791.43/656

Soggetti

Railroads in motion pictures

Silent films

Silent films - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-320) and index.

Nota di contenuto

; 1. Inventors and Hysterics: The Train in the Prehistory and Early History of Cinema -- ; 2. Romances of the Rail in Silent Film -- ; 3. The Railroad in the City -- ; 4. National Identity in the Train Film.

Sommario/riassunto

From its earliest days, the cinema has enjoyed a special kinship with the railroad, a mutual attraction based on similar ways of handling speed, visual perception, and the promise of a journey. Parallel Tracks is the first book to explore and explain this relationship in both theoretical and historical terms, blending film scholarship with railroad history. Describing the train as a mechanical double for the cinema, Lynne Kirby gives her romantic topic a compelling twist. She views the railroad/cinema romance in light of the technological and cultural instability underlying modernity and presents the railroad and cinema as complementary experiences that shaped the modern world and its subjects - the passengers and spectators who traveled through that world.

In wide-ranging and provocative analyses of dozens of silent films - icons of film history like The General and The Great Train Robbery as well as many that are rarely discussed - Kirby examines how trains and



rail travel embodied concepts of spectatorship and mobility grounded in imperialism and the social, sexual, and racial divisions of modern Western culture.