**Meet the editor**

Having obtained his doctorate from Hanyang University, Korea in 1981, Professor Young Suck Ro began his career working for Department of Dermatology of said university and has since progressed to become Head of Department. In a career spanning some thirty years, he has achieved a number of notable accolades, including being award the British Conference Fellowship Award (1991)

presented by the British Association of Dermatologists; Pacific Research of Korean Award (1991), and the Hanmi Research of Contact Dermatitis Award both presented by Korean Dermatological Association (2005).

Contents

**Preface IX** 

Chapter 1 **Epidemiology of Contact Dermatitis 3** 

Chapter 2 **Animal Models of Contact Dermatitis 23** 

Chapter 4 **Topical Delivery of Haptens: Methods of** 

M. Nino, G. Calabrò and P. Santoianni

Maki Hosoki and Keisuke Nishigawa

**Contact Dermatitis 61** 

Chapter 5 **Progress on the Development** 

Chapter 6 **Dental Metal Allergy 89** 

Federico Simonetta and Christine Bourgeois

Chapter 3 **Keratinocytes, Innate Immunity and Allergic Contact** 

Jochem W. van der Veen, Rob J. Vandebriel, Henk van Loveren and Janine Ezendam

**Modulation of the Cutaneous Permeability to Increase the Diagnosis of Allergic** 

**of Human** *In Vitro* **Assays for Assessment of the Sensitizing Potential of a Compound: Breaking Down the** *In Vivo* **Events 71**  Susan Gibbs and Krista Ouwehand

**Part 4 Allergic Contact Dermatitis to Specific Allergens 87** 

Jesús Jurado-Palomo, Álvaro Moreno-Ancillo, Irina Diana Bobolea,

**Dermatitis - Opportunities for the Development of** *In Vitro*  **Assays to Predict the Sensitizing Potential of Chemicals 39** 

Carmen Panizo Bravo and Iván Cervigón González

**Part 1 Epidemiology 1** 

**Part 2 Pathogenesis 21** 

**Part 3 Patch Testing 59** 
