Gender, Sex Hormones and Respiratory Disease A Comprehensive Guide /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hemnes, Anna R. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Humana Press, 2016.
• Series: Respiratory Medicine,
• Subjects: Medicine.; Respiratory organs > Diseases.; Medicine & Public Health.; Pneumology/Respiratory System.; Biomedicine general.

This book discusses normal sex-related differences in lung structure and function and the role these differences play in lung disease. New research on the effects of sex hormone signaling on specific cell types of the lung has begun to reveal how these hormones may drive or prevent lung disease. Exp...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• 1.Sex Differences in Normal Pulmonary Structure and Function at Rest and during Exercise
• 2.Sex Hormone Signaling In The Lung In Health And Disease: Airways, Parenchyma And Pulmonary Vasculature
• 3.Women and COPD
• 4.Sex, gender, and asthma
• 5.Sex hormones, sex, gender and pulmonary hypertension
•  6.Pulmonary Fibrosis
• 7.Sex-Specific Differences in Lung Cancer
•  8.Lymphangioleiomyomatosis
• 9.Developmental Lung Disease.  .