The lung: development, aging and the environment

by Harding, Richard Pinkerton, Kent Ed

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Title Statements

Full title :The lung : development, aging and the environment / edited by Richard Harding, Kent E. Pinkerton.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2015
Edition:Second edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Elsevier/AP
Place of Publication:Amsterdam
Language:eng
Publication Date:2015

Notes

Previous edition: 2004.

The Physical Object

Description:xv, 499 pages, 15 unnumbered pages of plates : : illustrations (some color) ; : 29 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780127999418, 0127999418
oclc:ocn904080737
LC Classification:QP121
Dewey Decimal:612.2/4

Part I. Critical events in normal development and aging -- 1. Lung progenitor cell specification and morphogenesis -- 2. Development of airway epithelium -- 3. Development of hte innervation of the lower airways: structure and function -- 4. The formation of pulmonary alveoli -- 5. Pulmonary vascular development -- 6. Developmental physiology of the pulmonary circulation -- 7. Development of salt and water transport across airway and alveolar epithelia -- 8. Physical, endocrine, and growth factors in lung development -- 9. The development of the pulmonary surfactant system -- 10. Ontogeny of the pulmonary immune system -- 11. Development of antioxidant and xenobiotic metabolizing enzyme systems -- 12. Stretch and grow: mechanical forces in compensatory lung growth -- 13. Pulmonary transition at birth -- 14. Normal aging of the lung -- 15. Cell-based strategies for the treatment of injury to the developing lung -- 16. Epigenetics and the developmental origins of lung disease -- Part II. Environmental influences on lung development and aging -- 17. Pulmonary consequences of preterm birth -- 18. The effects of neonatal hyperoxia on lung development -- 19. The influence of nutrition o…

Subjects

AGING Lung -- embryology Lung -- growth & development Lung Diseases Lung Diseases -- therapy Lungs -- Aging Lungs -- Diseases Lungs -- Growth Poumons -- Croissance Poumons -- Maladies Vieillissement