The second edition of The Lung: Development, Aging and the Environment provides an understanding of the multi-faceted nature of lung development, aging, and how the environment influences these processes. As an essential resource to respiratory, pulmonary, and thoracic scientists and physicians it provides an interface between the normal? and disease? cluster of chapters, allowing for a natural complement to each other. The interface between different lung diseases affecting the pediatric lung also adds a useful source for comparing how different lung diseases share key pathophysiological features. This same complementarity comes across in the logical line up of chapters dealing with the normal? pediatric lung. New research, including cell-based strategies for infant lung function, epigenetics, and prenatal alcohol exposure on lung development and function are some of the important additions to this edition of this reference work. Describes the normal processes of lung development, growth and agingConsiders the effects of the environmental contaminants in the air, water, soil, and diet on lung development, growth and healthDescribes genetic factors involved in susceptibility to lung diseaseCovers respiratory health risk in children INDICE: Chapter 1: Lung morphogenesis: Role of Growth Factors and Transcription FactorsChapter 2: Development of AirwayChapter 3: Development of the Pulmonary InnervationChapter 4: The Formation of Lung AlveoliChapter 5: Pulmonary Vascular DevelopmentChapter 6: Developmental Physiology of the Pulmary CirculationChapter 7: Development of Salt and Water Transport across Airway and Alveolar EpitheliaChapter 8: Role of Physical, Endocrine and Growth Factors in Lung Growth and DevelopmentChapter 9: The Development of the Pulmonary SurfactantChapter 10: Ontogeny of the Pulmonary Immune SystemChapter 11: Antioxidant and Xenobiotic Metabolizing Enzyme Systems in the Developing LungChapter 12: Stretch and Grow: Mechanical Forces in Compensatory Lung GrowthChapter 13: Pulmonary Transition at Birth: Term and PretermChapter 14: Processes in Normal Aging of The LungChapter 15: Cell-based Strategies to Reconstitute Lung Function in Infants with Lung InjuryChapter 16: The Role of Epigenetics in Developmental ProgrammingChapter 17: Pulmonary Consequences of Preterm BirthChapter 18: Role of Nutrition on Lung Development Before and After BirthChapter 19: Genetic Factors Involved in Susceptibility to Lung DiseaseChapter 20: Effects of Environmental Tobacco Smoke During Early Life StagesChapter 21: Nicotine Exposure During Early Development: Effects on The LungChapter 22: Exposure to Allergens During DevelopmentChapter 23: The Effects of Air Pollution on Lung Function Development and Asthma OccurrenceChapter 24: Environmental Toxicants and Lung Development: Experimental ModelsChapter 25: The Adult Pulmonary Surfactant SystemChapter 26: Effects of Neonatal Oxygen Exposure on the Developing LungChapter 27: Environmental Determinants of Lung Aging
- ISBN: 978-0-12-799941-8
- Editorial: Academic Press
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 448
- Fecha Publicación: 01/09/2014
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés