Lung development and regeneration /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Marcel Dekker,
[2004]
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| Series: | Lung biology in health and disease ;
190. |
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Table of Contents:
- I. Diseases : bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
- Arrested alveolar development in bronchopulmonary dysplasia
- Bronchopulmonary dysplasia in the postsurfactant era
- What is chronic obstructive pulmonary disease?
- Small airways disease in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Alveolar and bronchiolar inflammation in COPD
- Pathophysiological basis for the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Clinical approaches for evaluating retinoids as a treatment for human emphysema
- II. Technological and theoretical foundations for studies aimed at remedial therapy
- Detecting differentially expressed genes by differential display
- Expression profiling as a tool for diagnosis and pathway discovery : experimental design and technical considerations
- Plasticity of circulating adult stem cells
- The mechanical and cytoskeletal basis of lung morphogenesis
- III. Comparative lung structure and mechanics
- Morphogenesis of the mammalian lung : aspects of structure and extracellular matrix
- Structure and function of nonmammalian vertebrate lungs
- IV. Branching morphogenesis
- Lung branching morphogenesis : potential for regeneration of small conducting airways
- V. The gas-exchange region
- Apoptosis and emphysema
- Genetic analysis of emphysema and animal models of COPD
- Pulmonary alveoli : development, structural stability, and regeneration
- Molecular response to pneumonectomy
- Pulmonary limitations to exercise performance : the effects of health ageing and COPD
- Pulmonary adaptation to sustained changes in metabolic rate