Overview
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E. Edward Bittar
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Department of Physiology, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison, USA
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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- John L. Harwood, Llinos W. Morgan, Tanya Greatrex
Pages 44-63
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- Giuseppe Sant’ Ambrogio
Pages 77-93
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- Constancio González, Laura Almaraz, Ana Obeso, Ricardo Rigual
Pages 114-140
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- Martin Tristani-Firouzi, Stephen L. Archer, E. Kenneth Weir
Pages 218-240
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- Nirmal B. Charan, Paula Carvalho
Pages 241-249
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- Bryan E. Marshall, H. Frederick Frasch, Carol Marshall
Pages 265-272
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- Barbara A. Cockrill, Homayoun Kazemi
Pages 346-363
About this book
Pulmonary Biology in Health and Disease was conceived as a companion to a handful of expensive, multivolume textbooks. This is part of the promising trend to publish shorter textbooks on the subjects of lung biology and remodeling. Whoever is familiar with human biology and the far-reaching consequences of the genome and postgenome revolutions is apt to concede that the centerpiece in remodeling lies in the ?eld of m- ecular cardiobiology. The ?eld of molecular cardiobiology includes the syndrome of chronic heart failure as well as ischemic cardioprotection. By analogy, the centerpiece in pulmonobiology is chronic asthma. Key topics in the present volume include s- naling mechanisms regulating the endothelium and smooth muscle cells,in?ammatory cells, mediators, airway surface liquid, and pharmacological therapy that focuses on how in?amed airways are altered. Written primarily for predoctoral and postdoctoral graduates in the basic medical sciences, the medical student and postdoctoral physician, graduates in the allied s- ences, nurses, pulmonologists, and physicians in critical care medicine, this book p- vides many of the fundamentals of contemporary pulmonology. It is divided into several parts devoted to the control of respiration, arterial chemoreceptors,muscles of ventilation, pulmonary physiology, and gas exchange in health, exercise, and disease. Special emphasis is placed on emphysema and its pathobiology, acute lung injury, asthma and inhaled toxicants. Because the ?eld is always evolving, each chapter includes recommended readings that lead the reader to sources of additional information, such as the review on remodeling of the blood gas barrier by West and Mathieu-Costello.
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Physiology, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison, USA
E. Edward Bittar
