Covers the pathology of asthma; bronchoscopy; bronchoalveolar lavage studies; mast proteases; mast cell cytokines in allergic inflammation; airway responses to antigen in asthmatic and nonasthmatic subjects; the role of the basophil in the inflammatory mechanisms of asthma; eosinophils; granule proteins; neutrophils; allergen recognition sites in immunoglobulin E from patients with asthma; T cells; macrophages and macrophage diversity; antigen presentation in the asthmatic lung; and more.