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Free radicals and inhalation pathology : respiratory system, mononuclear phagocyte system, hypoxia and reoxygenation, pneumoconioses, and other granulomatoses cancer /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schiller, Erich, 1922-
Format: Software eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York : Springer, [2004]
Subjects:
Lung Diseases > etiology.
Free Radicals > adverse effects.
Lung > physiology.
Table of Contents:
  • pt. I. History and scientific background
  • Protagonists of industrial medicine
  • Aetiopathogenesis of pulmonary fibrosis and malignancy
  • Formulation of the problems
  • Material and methods
  • Reactive oxygen and nitrogen species
  • pt. II. Respiratory system : orthology and pathology
  • Tracheo-bronchial epithelium
  • Pneumocytes
  • Alveolar macrophages
  • Interstice
  • Pulmonary blood vessels
  • Pulmonary lymphatic vessels
  • Pulmonary nerves
  • Radical-mediated pulmonary lesions
  • pt. III. Extrapulmonary targets
  • Radical damage in nonrespiratory organ systems
  • pt. IV. Ageing
  • Molecular ageing
  • Ageing of organs
  • Possible strategies to prevent and reverse manifestations of ageing
  • pt. V. Cancer
  • Carcinogenesis
  • Tumour proliferation and metastasis
  • Antitumour drug therapy