
Executive Editor:
Khurshid Zaman
Bentham Science Publishers
Associate Editor:
Antonio La Cava
Division of Rheumatology Department of Medicine
University of California Los Angeles
California, CA
USA
Regional
Editors:
Murat Enoz
Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
Special Memorial Hizmet Hospital
Istanbul
Turkey
Cristoforo Incorvaia
Allergy/Pulmonary rehabilitation
ICP Hospital
Milan
Italy
Luis Prieto-Andres
Facultat de Medicina I Odontologia
University of Valencia
Valencia
Spain
Kyoungho Suk
Department of Pharmacology
Kyungpook National University
School of Medicine
Daegu
South Korea
Hajime Takizawa
The Fourth Department of Internal Medicine
Teikyo University School of Medicine
University Hospital Mizonokuchi
Kawasaki City
Japan
Daisuke Tsuruta
Department of Dermatology
Osaka City University
Graduate School of Medicine
Osaka
Japan
Heinz Wiendl
Department of Neurology
Inflammatory Disorders of the Nervous System and Neurooncology
Münster
Germany
Ole D. Wolthers
Children's Clinic Randers
Randers
Denmark
Editorial Advisory Board:
M. Akdis (Swiss Inst. Allergy
and Asthma Res., Davos, Switzerland)
C. Albanesi (Istituto Dermopatico dell'Immacolata,
Rome, Italy)
C. Alessandri (Ctr. Clin. Exp. Allerg, IDI-IRCCS,
Rome, Italy)
A. Antonelli (University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy)
E. Baraldi (Univ. of Podova, Padova, Italy)
P.J. Barnes (Imperial College, London, UK)
S. Barth (Fraunhofer IME, Aachen, Germany)
A. Bauhofer (Univ. Marburg, Marburg, Germany)
R. Bei (Univ. of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome,
Italy)
C. Cantisani (Univ. “La Sapienza”
of Rome, Rome, Italy)
R. Carmody (University College Cork, Cork,
Ireland)
M. Casanovas (Inmunotek, S.L., Madrid, Spain)
M. Cazzola (Univ. of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome,
Italy)
J.E. Crabtree (St. James's Univ. Hospital,
Leeds, UK)
S. Cuzzocrea (Univ. of Messina, Messina, Italy)
J.B. De Sanctis (Universidad Central de Venezuela,
Caracas, Venezuela)
A. Descoteaux (Université du Québec,
Québec, Canada)
C. Du (The University of British Columbia,
Vancouver, Canada)
S. Fiorucci (University of Perugia, Perugia,
Italy)
A. Foss (University of
Oslo, Oslo, Norway)
C. Foti (Univ. of Bari, Bari, Italy)
A.M. Gárate (Bial-Arístegui,
Bilbao, Spain)
B. Ghosh (Delhi Univ.,
Delhi, India)
O. Gualillo (Santiago Univ. Clinical Hospital,
Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
C.S. Hampe (University of Washington, Seattle,
WA, USA)
T. Hisa (University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan)
S.T. Holgate (Southampton General Hospital,
Southampton, UK)
A.G. Jardine (University of Glasgow, Glasgow,
UK)
T. Kamisawa (Tokyo Metropolitan Komagome
Hospital, Tokyo, Japan)
M. G. Kanariou (“Aghia Sophia"
Children's Hospital, Athens, Greece)
H. Kanazawa (Osaka City University,
Osaka, Japan)
H.I. Kankaanranta (Seinäjoki Central
Hospital, Seinäjoki, Finland)
A. Kasperska-Zajac (Medical Univ.of Silesia,
Zabrze, Poland)
D.M. Klinman (National cancer Institute,
Frederick, MD, USA)
T. Kobayashi (Mie University, Tsu, Japan)
G.N. Konstantinou (General Military Training
Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece)
A.I. Koreck (Allux Medical Inc, Menlo Park,
CA, USA)
C. Kroegel (Friedrich-Schiller-University,
Jena, Germany)
A.B. Kulkarni (National Institute of Health/NIDCR,
Bethesda, MD, USA)
I. Kurokawa (Meiwa Hospital, Hyogo, Japan)
J.F. Lapena (University of the Philippines,
Manila, Philippines)
A.K. Leung (University of Calgary, Calgary,
Canada)
F. Levi-Schaffer (The Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem,
Jerusalem, Israel)
P. Lieberman (Allergy & Asthma Care,
Germantown, TN, USA)
J.M. Madison (Univ. of Massachusetts Med.
Sch., Worcester, MA, USA)
S. Marrakchi (Univ. Hospital Hedi Chaker,
Sfax, Tunisia)
A.T. Marti (Hospital Clinic de Barcelona,
Barcelona, Spain)
J.R. McDonald (Osprey Pharmaceuticals USA
Inc., San Francisco, CA, USA)
S. Mehta (Ambit Biosciences, San Diego,
CA, USA)
S. G. Meuth (University of Wuerzburg, Würzburg,
Germany)
A. Mirshafiey (Tehran Univ. of Medical Sciences,
Tehran, Iran)
Y. Mizushina (Kobe-Gakuin University, Kobe,
Japan)
C.C. Mok (Tuen Mun Hospital, Hong Kong,
China)
G.G. Mor (Yale-New Heaven Hospital, New
Heaven, CT, USA)
M. Morais-Almeida
(Hospital of Dona Estefânia, Lisbon, Portugal)
E.J. Morcillo (University of Valencia, Valencia,
Spain)
I. Nagaoka (Juntendo Univ., Tokyo, Japan)
T. Nanki (Tokyo Med. and Dental Univ., Tokyo,
Japan)
A. Nicolini (Univ. of Pisa, Pisa, Italy)
V. Niederberger-Leppin (Medical Univ. of
Vienna, Vienna, Austria)
C. Özdemir (Marmara University, Istanbul,
Turkey)
D. Panigrahy (Children’s Hospital Boston,
MA, USA)
A. Papi (University of Ferrara, Ferrara,
Italy)
E.A. Pastorello (Niguarda Ca' Granda Hospital,
Milan, Italy)
G. Penton-Rol (Center for Genetic Eng. and
Biotech., Havana, Cuba)
R. Pezzilli (Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, Bologna,
Italy)
D. Radzioch (McGill University, Montreal,
Canada)
J.M. Reimund (Ctr. Hosp. Univ. de Caen, Caen,
France)
H.E. Renz (Univ. Marburg, Marburg, Germany)
E.F.-C. Rodríguez (Allergy Innovations
GmbH, Starnberg, Germany)
G.A. Rossi (Instituto G. Gaslini, Genova,
Italy)
C. Rumio (Università degli Studi di
Milano, Milan, Italy)
C. Rundfeldt (Drug-Consult.Net, Coswig, Germany)
E.P. Sampaio (Leprosy Laboratory, Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil)
D.W. Sexton (University of East Anglia, Norwich,
UK)
M.Y. Sheikh (University of California, San Francisco,
CA, USA)
B.L. Slomiany (Univ. of Medicine
& Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, USA)
K.J. Snibson (The University of Melbourne,
Eltham, Australia)
B.W. Sun (Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang,
China)
Y. Tesfaigzi (Lovelace Respiratory Res.
Inst., Albuquerque, NM, USA)
Y.B. Tripathi (Banaras Hindu Univ., Varanasi,
India)
C. Tsitsimpikou (General State Chemical Lab.
of Greece, Athens, Greece)
R. Valenta (Medical Univ.of Vienna, Vienna,
Austria)
G.M. Walsh (University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen,
UK)
P.T. Walsh (Trinity College Dublin, Dublin,
Ireland)
J.Y. Wang (National Cheng-Kung Univ., Taiwan,
China)
S.H. Wang (University of Michigan, MI, USA)
X. Wang (Fudan Univ., Shanghai, China)
J.M. Weiler (Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA,
USA)
D.S. Wheeler (Cincinnati Children's Hospital
Med. Ctr., Cincinnati, OH, USA)
K.H. Yu (Chang Gung Memorial Hosp., Tao-Yuan,
Taiwan)
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