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" The lung : "
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BL
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622546
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dltt
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| Title & Author
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The lung : : development, aging and the environment
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| Edition Statement
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Second edition // edited by Richard Harding, Kent E, Pinkerton
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xv, 499 pages, [15] pages of plates :: illustrations (some color) ;; 29 cm
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9780127999418
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: 0127999418
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| Notes
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Previous edition: 2004
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Part I. Critical Events in Normal Development and Aging: Lung progenitor cell specification and morphogenesis -- Development of airway epithelium -- Development of the innervation of the lower airways: structure and function -- The formation of pulmonary alveoli -- Pulmonary vascular development -- Developmental physiology of the pulmonary circulation -- Development of salt and water transport across airway and alveolar epithelia -- Physical, endocrine, and growth factors in lung development -- The development of the pulmonary surfactant system -- Ontogeny of the pulmonary immune system -- Development of antioxidant and xenobiotic metabolizing enzyme systems -- Stretch and grow: mechanical forces in compensatory lung growth -- Pulmonary transition at birth -- Normal aging of the lung -- Cell-based strategies for the treatment of injury to the developed lung -- Epigenetics and the developmental origins of lung disease -- Part II. Environmental Influences on Lung Developmental and Aging: Pulmonary consequences of preterm birth -- The effects of neonatal hyperoxia on lung development -- The influence of nutrition on lung development before and after birth -- Genetic factors involved in susceptibility to lung disease -- Effects of environmental tobacco smoke during early life stages -- Nicotine exposure during early development: effects on the lung -- Exposure to allergens during development -- The epidemiology of air pollution and childhood lung diseases -- Environmental toxicants and lung development in experimental models -- Effect of environment and aging on the pulmonary surfactant system -- Environmental determinants of lung aging
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Lungs-- Growth
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Lungs-- Diseases
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Lungs-- Aging
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Lung-- growth development
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| Dewey Classification
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612.2/4
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QP121.L86 2015
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WF 600
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| Added Entry
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Harding, Richard,Dr.
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Pinkerton, Kent Ed,1950-
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