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Alveolar structure and function /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Payne, D. Keith
Other Authors: Wellikoff, Adam
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: San Rafael, Calif. (1537 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA) : Morgan and Claypool, [2013]
Series:Colloquium digital library of life sciences.
Colloquium series on integrated systems physiology ; # 37.
Subjects:
Pulmonary alveoli.
Pulmonary Alveoli.
adaptive immunity
alveolar capillary endothelium
alveolar epithelium
alveolar macrophage
alveolus
innate immunity
interstitial fibroblasts
lung development
pulmonary gas exchange
pulmonary host defenses
surfactant
terminal respiratory unit
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Historical perspectives
  • 3. Lung development
  • 3.1 Embryology and prenatal development
  • 3.2 Postnatal development
  • 4. Structural anatomy, conducting airways to the alveoli
  • 4.1 The terminal respiratory unit
  • 4.2 Innervation
  • 4.3 Alveolar cellular structure
  • 4.3.1 Type I alveolar epithelial cells
  • 4.3.2 Type II alveolar epithelial cells
  • 4.3.3 Alveolar macrophages
  • 4.3.4 Interstitial fibroblasts
  • 4.3.5 Alveolar capillary endothelium
  • 4.4 Pulmonary circulation and distribution of blood flow
  • 5. The alveolar-capillary membrane and gas exchange
  • 6. Fluid and solute exchange
  • 7. Alveolar defense and clearance mechanisms
  • 7.1 Innate immunity
  • 7.1.1 Alveolar epithelium
  • 7.1.2 Monocytes and alveolar macrophages
  • 7.1.3 Alveolar leukocytes
  • 7.2 Bridging the gap
  • 7.2.1 Brief overview of immunology
  • 7.2.2 Dendritic cells
  • 7.2.3 Other cell types
  • 7.3 Adaptive immunity
  • References
  • Author biography.