title: Advances in environmental and occupational disorders 2006.
abstract: In 2006, there continued to be significant contributions to the Journal in the area of environmental and occupational allergy. In addition to very strong clinical observations, there were a number of studies that examined the effect of environmental agents on cellular and molecular processes in allergy, and molecular approaches were also used in investigations of allergen structure and biology. The Journal also received a number of very strong epidemiologic studies examining several aspects of environmental and occupational allergy. Thus, this particular area of our specialty thrives as a result of clinical, mechanistic, epidemiologic, and translational observations. This article reviews a number of these papers presented in the Journal in 2006.
authors.affiliation: Division of Pediatric Immunology and Infectious Diseases and the Center for Environmental Medicine, Asthma and Lung Biology, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7310, USA. David_Peden@med.unc.edu
authors.forename: David B
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: Peden
authors.forename: Robert K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Bush
mesh_terms: D004781:Environmental Exposure / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006801:Humans; D006967:Hypersensitivity / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology*; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000276:immunology*; D016273:Occupational Exposure / Q000009:adverse effects*