"Pulmonary Biology in Health and Disease was written for a readership that includes predoctoral and postdoctoral graduates in the basic medical sciences, the medical student and postdoctoral students in medicine, the allied health sciences, nurses, pulmonologists, and physicians…
This new book provides an accessible review of the field of lung biology and disease aimed at the graduate or medical student and biomedical researcher. The book starts by considering the anatomy and ultrastructure of the lung and the tracheal and bronchial system, the control o…
Up-to-date information-nine new chapters cover recent developments and research, with several chapters focusing solely on the fast-developing areas of man-made and naturally occurring nanoparticles, to keep readers aware of advances in the field. Multidisciplinary coverage-of t…
Up-to-date review of particle-lung Interactions.
During the past thirty years, great progress has been made in defining the roles of steroid, peptide, and polypeptide hormones in the processes of lung morphogenesis, differentiation of specialized cell types, and surfactant synthesis. In Endocrinology of the Lung, Carole Mendel…
This book represents a comprehensive update on pulmonary surfactant by merging classical knowledge with new information. Topics include surfactant secretion and alveolar processing and recycling; physical bases and different theoretical models of the physiological mechanism for …