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  title info:
    title: Pulmonary Biology in Health and Disease
  name:
    name part: Bittar, E. Edward.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2002
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XII, 428 p. online resource.
  abstract: Pulmonary Biology in Health and Disease was conceived as a companion to a handful of expensive, multivolume textbooks. This is part of the promising trend to publish shorter textbooks on the subjects of lung biology and remodeling. Whoever is familiar with human biology and the far-reaching consequences of the genome and postgenome revolutions is apt to concede that the centerpiece in remodeling lies in the ?eld of m- ecular cardiobiology. The ?eld of molecular cardiobiology includes the syndrome of chronic heart failure as well as ischemic cardioprotection. By analogy, the centerpiece in pulmonobiology is chronic asthma. Key topics in the present volume include s- naling mechanisms regulating the endothelium and smooth muscle cells,in?ammatory cells, mediators, airway surface liquid, and pharmacological therapy that focuses on how in?amed airways are altered. Written primarily for predoctoral and postdoctoral graduates in the basic medical sciences, the medical student and postdoctoral physician, graduates in the allied s- ences, nurses, pulmonologists, and physicians in critical care medicine, this book p- vides many of the fundamentals of contemporary pulmonology. It is divided into several parts devoted to the control of respiration, arterial chemoreceptors,muscles of ventilation, pulmonary physiology, and gas exchange in health, exercise, and disease. Special emphasis is placed on emphysema and its pathobiology, acute lung injury, asthma and inhaled toxicants. Because the ?eld is always evolving, each chapter includes recommended readings that lead the reader to sources of additional information, such as the review on remodeling of the blood gas barrier by West and Mathieu-Costello.
  table of contents: Anatomy and Ultrastructure of the Lung -- Biology of Mammalian Airway Epithelium -- Alveolar Surfactant -- Regulation of the Airway Caliber -- Receptors and Reflexes of the Respiratory Tract -- The Control of Respiration -- Arterial Chemoreceptors -- The Respiratory Muscles in Health and Disease -- Mechanics of Respiration -- The Physiology and Pathophysiology of Gas Exchange -- The Pulmonary Circulation in Health and Disease -- Regulation of Lung Water: Role of the Bronchial Circulation -- Airway Wall Liquid in Health and Disease -- Correlations Between the Pulmonary Circulation and Gas Exchange in Health and Disease -- Respiratory Regulation of Acid-Base Balance in Health and Disease -- Exercise and Breathing in Health and Disease -- High-Altitude Physiology and Pathophysiology -- Lung Immunology and Host Defense -- Acute Lung Injury -- Asthma -- Pathobiology of Emphysema -- Inhaled Noninfectious Toxicants and Their Effects on the Lung.
  note: edited by E. Edward Bittar.
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Human physiology
  subject:
    topic: Animal physiology
  subject:
    topic: Biophysics
  subject:
    topic: Biological physics
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences, general
  subject:
    topic: Animal Physiology
  subject:
    topic: Biophysics and Biological Physics
  subject:
    topic: Human Physiology
  classification: QH301-705
  classification: 570
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9780387224350
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b97619
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204163255.0
    record identifier: 978-0-387-22435-0