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 Pinkerton.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2015
Edition:Second edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Elsevier/Academic Press
Place of Publication:Amsterdam
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2015

Notes

Previous edition: 2004.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780128002889, 0128002883
oclc:ocn894086481
LC Classification:QP121
Dewey Decimal:612.2

Front Cover; The Lung; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Introduction; Part I -- Critical Events in Normal Development and Aging; Chapter 1 -- Lung Progenitor Cell Specification and Morphogenesis; INTRODUCTION; ONSET OF LUNG DEVELOPMENT; BRANCHING MORPHOGENESIS; ESTABLISHMENT OF PROXIMAL-DISTAL CELL FATE AND DIFFERENTIATION; CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES; Chapter 2 -- Development of Airway Epithelium; INTRODUCTION; DIFFERENCES IN PHENOTYPIC EXPRESSION IN ADULTS; OVERALL DEVELOPMENT OF AIRWAYS; SUBMUCOSAL GLANDS; EPITHELIAL DIFFERENTIATION; REGULATION OF DIFFERENTIATION; REFERENCES

Chapter 3 -- Development of the Innervation of the Lower Airways: Structure and FunctionINTRODUCTION; ANATOMY, MORPHOLOGY, AND DISTRIBUTION IN THE PRENATAL LUNG; ANATOMY, MORPHOLOGY, AND DISTRIBUTION IN THE POSTNATAL LUNG; ONTOGENY AND REFLEX CONTROL OF AIRWAY SMOOTH MUSCLE: FUNCTIONAL CONSEQUENCES; MUSCARINIC RECEPTORS IN THE LUNG; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; Chapter 4 -- The Formation of Pulmonary Alveoli; INTRODUCTION; STAGES OF LUNG DEVELOPMENT; PARACRINE SIGNALING TO EPITHELIAL CELLS; DEVELOPMENT OF THE ALVEOLAR INTERSTITIUM; CONCLUSIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES

Chapter 5 -- Pulmonary Vascular De…

Subjects

AGING Lung -- embryology Lung -- growth & development Lung Diseases Lung Diseases -- therapy Lungs -- Aging Lungs -- Diseases Lungs -- Growth MEDICAL -- Physiology Poumons -- Croissance Poumons -- Maladies SCIENCE -- Life Sciences Vieillissement