Smoking and Lung Inflammation Basic, Pre-Clinical and Clinical Research Advances /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Rogers, Thomas J. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Criner, Gerard J. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Cornwell, William D. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Immunology.; Respiratory organs > Diseases.; Pathology.; Biomedicine.; Pneumology/Respiratory System.

Smoking and Lung Inflammation is the first book directly related to chronic lung inflammation of its kind in several respects. First, the it focuses on both basic and clinical research on COPD, and the inflammatory mechanisms that function in these diseases. Second, it is unique with respect to scop...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction
• Immunopathology of COPD
• Monocyte Populations Which Participate in Chronic Lung Inflammation
• Neutrophils Inflammation in COPD
• Role of Epithelial Cells in Chronic Inflammatory Lung Disease
• The Relationship Between Oxidative Stress Responses and Lung Inflammation with Cigarette Smoking
• Autoimmune Mechanisms Contributing to Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD): Local and Systemic Disease
• Infectious Mechanisms Regulating Susceptibility to Acute Exacerbations of COPD
• COPD: Biomarkers and Phenotypes
• Anti-inflammatory Therapeutics in COPD: Past, Present and Future.