Lung injury : mechanisms, pathophysiology, and therapy /

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Imprint:Boca Raton : Taylor & Francis, 2005.
Description:xviii, 857 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Lung biology in health and disease ; v. 196
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5822763
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Other authors / contributors:Notter, Robert H.
Finkelstein, Jacob N.
Holm, Bruce A.
ISBN:0824757939 (hbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Claude Lenfant
  • 1. Introduction to lung injury / Robert H. Notter, Jacob N. Finkelstein and Bruce A. Holm
  • 2. Principles of lung development, growth, and repair / Ian Copland, Keith Tanswell and Martin Post
  • 3. Acute lung injury : etiologies and basic features / Paul R. Knight and Alexandre T. Rotta
  • 4. Mediators and inflammatory cell recruitment in acute lung injury / Michael P. Keane, John A. Belperio and Robert M. Strieter
  • 5. Chronic lung injury : basic features and clinical relevance / Dayid Perlman, Peter B. Bitterman and Christine H. Wendt
  • 6. Mediators and mechanisms in chronic lung injury and fibrosis / Joseph A. Lasky, Luis A. Ortiz and Arnold R. Brody
  • 7. Roles of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species in lung injury / Ian C. Davis, John D. Lang and Sadis Matalon
  • 8. Vascular dysfunction in lung injury / Stephen Wedgewood, Jeffrey R. Fineman and Stephen M. Black
  • 9. Surfactant activity and dysfunction in lung injury / Zhengdong Wang, Bruce A. Holm, Sadis Matalon and Robert H. Notter
  • 10. Cell and animal models of lung injury / Jacob N. Finkelstein, Michael A. O'Reilly, Bruce A. Holm, Patricia R. Chess and Robert H. Notter
  • 11. Genetically modified mouse models of lung injury and repair / Barry R. Stripp, Adam Giangreco and Susan D. Reynolds
  • 12. Inhalation toxicology : methods and models / Daniel L. Costa
  • 13. Ventilation therapies and strategies for acute lung injury / C. C. Dos Santos and A. S. Slutsky
  • 14. Anti-inflammatory therapies for lung injury / Richard Phipps, William S. Beckett, Julia Kaufman, Christine Martey, P. J. Sime and Thomas H. Thatcher
  • 15. Surfactant replacement therapy in lung injury / Patricia R. Chess, Jacob N. Finkelstein, Bruce A. Holm and Robert H. Notter
  • 16. Antioxidant therapy for lung injury / Tiina M. Asikainen and Carl W. White
  • 17. Vascular therapies in lung injury / Mahesh Bommaraju, Vasanth H. Kumar, Satyan Lakshminrusimha, Rita M. Ryan and Frederick C. Morin III
  • 18. Gene therapy for lung injury / P. J. Sime, M. Kolb, R. J. White, M. Hitt and J. Gauldie
  • 19. Combination therapies for lung injury / Gloria S. Pryhuber, Carl T. D'Angio, Jacob N. Finkelstein and Robert H. Notter
  • 20. Summary and future research directions / Robert H. Notter, Jacob N. Finkelstein and Bruce A. Holm.