Overview
- Highlights known factors relating to sex disparities appearing in lung disease
- Offers insights on sex-specific mechanisms of lung inflammation and immunity
- Sheds a light on crosstalks between respiratory and reproductive systems in lung disease
Part of the book series: Physiology in Health and Disease (PIHD)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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About this book
In turn, these findings are complemented by chapters on recent studies, which investigate how circulating sex hormone levels impact the lung’s innate immune response to environmental agents and air pollution. The pathogeneses of asthma and viral respiratory infection are also major focus areas. As an outlook, the book also discusses current and future research directions aimed at developing sex-specific therapies for lung disease.
To examine these anatomical and physiological differences in the male and female respiratory systems, the authors employ a broad range of methods from molecular and clinical biology. Accordingly, the book will be a fascinating read for physiologists and clinicians alike.Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Xenia T. Tigno is the Associate Director for Careers at the Office of Research on Women’s Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. Prior to her current position, she was a Program Officer at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the NIH and of the National Institute for Nursing Research. Dr. Tigno has published in the areas of the biophysics of the microcirculation, obesity, diabetes, aging, community-based epidemiology, chaos analysis, herbal medicine, and women’s health. She taught medical physiology for nearly 30 years, includingserving as Professor and Chair of the Department of Physiology, University of the Philippines College of Medicine, and coordinator of the Medical Physiology course at the University of South Florida. A native of Manila, Philippines, Dr. Tigno obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Physics, and Master’s degrees in both Physiology and Epidemiology from the University of the Philippines, and her Doctorate in Natural Science degree from the University of Wurzburg, Federal Republic of Germany. As a bench scientist, she has worked in various laboratories, including at the CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Geneva, at the Physiological Institutes in Wurzburg, Munich, and Berlin, and at the National Cardiovascular Institute in Osaka. She has previously edited a textbook on Integrative Physiology. Dr. Tigno’s current efforts are directed towards supporting the advancement of women in biomedical careers, and promoting diversity and inclusion in academia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sex-Based Differences in Lung Physiology
Editors: Patricia Silveyra, Xenia T. Tigno
Series Title: Physiology in Health and Disease
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63549-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: This is a U.S. government work and not under copyright protection in the U.S.; foreign copyright protection may apply 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-63548-0Published: 19 March 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-63551-0Published: 19 March 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-63549-7Published: 18 March 2021
Series ISSN: 2625-252X
Series E-ISSN: 2625-2538
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 490
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 31 illustrations in colour
Topics: Human Physiology, Pneumology/Respiratory System, Cell Physiology, Human Genetics, Cancer Research