Hypersensitivity reactions which occur within minutes of exposure to challenging antigen due to the release of histamine which follows the antigen-antibody reaction and causes smooth muscle contraction and increased vascular permeability.
    

concept

Immediate hypersensitivity : modern concepts and developments / edited by Michael K. Bach.

Anaphylactoid edema / by Hans Selye.

Arthur Fernandez Coca und der Atopie-Begriff / Erich Fuchs, Hans Schadewaldt.

Zur Geschichte des Begriffes "Atopie" / H. Schadewaldt.

Immunological diseases / Max Samter ed. ; section ed. David W. Talmage [and others] ; by 105 contributing authors.

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Hypersensitivity, Immediate

Catalogue

Immediate hypersensitivity : modern concepts and developments / edited by Michael K. Bach.

Anaphylactoid edema / by Hans Selye.

Arthur Fernandez Coca und der Atopie-Begriff / Erich Fuchs, Hans Schadewaldt.

Zur Geschichte des Begriffes "Atopie" / H. Schadewaldt.

Immunological diseases / Max Samter ed. ; section ed. David W. Talmage [and others] ; by 105 contributing authors.