Environmental factors in respiratory disease /

Environmental Factors in Respiratory Disease provides an overview of the state of knowledge on the role of environmental factors in respiratory disease. The book opens with a discussion of some trends and developments which bear on concerns with respiratory disease and the environment. This is follo...

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Corporate Authors: ScienceDirect (Online service), National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, John E. Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study in the Health Sciences
Other Authors: Lee, Douglas H. K. (Douglas Harry Kedgwin), 1905-2005 (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: New York : Academic Press, 1972.
Series:Environmental sciences.
Fogarty International Center proceedings ; no. 11.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:Environmental Factors in Respiratory Disease provides an overview of the state of knowledge on the role of environmental factors in respiratory disease. The book opens with a discussion of some trends and developments which bear on concerns with respiratory disease and the environment. This is followed by separate chapters on pulmonary anatomy and physiology as it relates to the problem of environmental factors in respiratory disease; various tracheobronchial responses to insult; the response of alveoli of the lung to damaging agents; and effects of chronic respiratory disease on lung and hear.
Item Description:Sponsored by National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and John E. Fogarty International Center [of the] National Institutes of Health.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xvii, 256 pages) : illustrations
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9781483269672
1483269671