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1 online resource |
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Front Cover; The Lung; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Introduction; Part I -- Critical Events in Normal Development and Aging; Chapter 1 -- Lung Progenitor Cell Specification and Morphogenesis; INTRODUCTION; ONSET OF LUNG DEVELOPMENT; BRANCHING MORPHOGENESIS; ESTABLISHMENT OF PROXIMAL-DISTAL CELL FATE AND DIFFERENTIATION; CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES; Chapter 2 -- Development of Airway Epithelium; INTRODUCTION; DIFFERENCES IN PHENOTYPIC EXPRESSION IN ADULTS; OVERALL DEVELOPMENT OF AIRWAYS; SUBMUCOSAL GLANDS; EPITHELIAL DIFFERENTIATION; REGULATION OF DIFFERENTIATION; REFERENCES |
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Chapter 3 -- Development of the Innervation of the Lower Airways: Structure and FunctionINTRODUCTION; ANATOMY, MORPHOLOGY, AND DISTRIBUTION IN THE PRENATAL LUNG; ANATOMY, MORPHOLOGY, AND DISTRIBUTION IN THE POSTNATAL LUNG; ONTOGENY AND REFLEX CONTROL OF AIRWAY SMOOTH MUSCLE: FUNCTIONAL CONSEQUENCES; MUSCARINIC RECEPTORS IN THE LUNG; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; Chapter 4 -- The Formation of Pulmonary Alveoli; INTRODUCTION; STAGES OF LUNG DEVELOPMENT; PARACRINE SIGNALING TO EPITHELIAL CELLS; DEVELOPMENT OF THE ALVEOLAR INTERSTITIUM; CONCLUSIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES |
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Chapter 5 -- Pulmonary Vascular DevelopmentINTRODUCTION; CELLULAR BASIS OF VESSEL MORPHOGENESIS; DEVELOPMENT (FORMATION AND GROWTH) OF ENDOTHELIAL CHANNELS; DEVELOPMENT OF VASCULAR MURAL CELLS; CELL-CELL SIGNALING: ENDOTHELIAL/MURAL CELL DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL VASCULAR DEVELOPMENT; POSTNATAL VASCULAR DEVELOPMENT AND GROWTH; VASCULAR GROWTH AND REORGANIZATION IN THE ADULT; VESSELL WALL REORGANIZATION IN AGING; FAILURE TO DEVELOP THE NORMAL QUOTA OF VASCULAR UNITS AND A FUNCTIONALLY "NORMAL" LUNG; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES |
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Chapter 6 -- Developmental Physiology of the Pulmonary CirculationINTRODUCTION; LUNG VASCULAR GROWTH; CONTROL OF THE DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES; Chapter 7 -- Development of Salt and Water Transport across Airway and Alveolar Epithelia; TRANSPORT PROCESSES UNDERLYING SECRETION AND ABSORPTION ACROSS PULMONARY EPITHELIA; CELLULAR BASIS OF SECRETION AND ABSORPTION; INTACT ADULT LUNG; CULTURES OF ADULT TYPE II CELLS; INTACT FETAL LUNG; FETAL LUNG EXPLANTS; CULTURES OF FETAL ALVEOLAR TYPE II CELLS; ADULT AIRWAY EPITHELIUM; FETAL AND NEWBORN AIRWAY EPITHELIUM |
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PERINATAL ABSORPTION OF LIQUIDCONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES; Chapter 8 -- Physical, Endocrine, and Growth Factors in Lung Development; INTRODUCTION; ROLE OF PHYSICAL FACTORS IN REGULATING FETAL LUNG DEVELOPMENT; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION MECHANISMS; ROLE OF GROWTH FACTORS IN LUNG DEVELOPMENT; CIRCULATING FACTORS AND METABOLIC INFLUENCES ON LUNG DEVELOPMENT; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 9 -- The Development of the Pulmonary Surfactant System; INTRODUCTION; ASSEMBLY AND RELEASE OF SURFACTANT; COMPOSITION OF PULMONARY SURFACTANT; FUNCTIONS OF THE SURFACTANT FILM |
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Previous edition: 2004 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Lungs -- Growth
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Lungs -- Diseases.
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Lungs -- Aging.
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Aging.
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Lung -- embryology
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Lung -- growth & development
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Lung Diseases -- therapy
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Aging
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Lung Diseases
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MEDICAL -- Physiology.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Human Anatomy & Physiology.
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Aging
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Lungs -- Aging
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Lungs -- Diseases
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Lungs -- Growth
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Harding, Richard, 1944- editor.
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Pinkerton, Kent Ed, 1950- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780128002889 |
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0128002883 |
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