[Experimental animal pathology. Immuno-allergic asthma (author's transl)]

One of the interests of experimental animal work is the power to analyse a given pathophysiological mechanism and also the privilege of witnessing its appearance. Immuno-allergic asthma, mediated by specific IgE of an allergen only represents one aetiological form, among many others, that make up the clinical spectrum of asthma in the human species. It is, however, the type of asthma whose experimental reproduction, a priori, is the most easily reproduced and has been the most tested. The different protocols used an analysis of the results and the lines of current or projected research form the object of this review.