TY  - BOOK
AU  - Harding,Richard
AU  - Pinkerton,Kent Ed
AU  - Plopper,Charles G.
ED  - ScienceDirect eBooks.
TI  - The lung: development, aging and the environment 
SN  - 1423755405
AV  - QP121 L86 2005eb
PY  - 2004///
KW  - Lungs
KW  - Growth
KW  - Diseases
KW  - Aging
KW  - Poumons
KW  - Croissance
KW  - Maladies
KW  - Vieillissement
KW  - MEDICAL
KW  - Physiology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SCIENCE
KW  - Life Sciences
KW  - Human Anatomy & Physiology
KW  - fast
KW  - Longen
KW  - gtt
KW  - Veroudering (biologie, psychologie)
KW  - Milieugezondheidskunde
KW  - Lung
KW  - growth & development
KW  - electronic information resources [MESH]
KW  - Nature and nurture
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Cover; Contents; Preface; List of Contributors; Introduction; Part I: Critical Events in Normal Lung Development and Aging; Lung Morphogenesis, Role of Growth Factors and Transcription Factors; Development of Airway Epithelium; Development of the Airway Innervation; Development of Alveoli; Development of the Pulmonary Basement Membrane Zone; Development of the Pulmonary Vasculature; Developmental Physiology of the Pulmonary Circulation; Development of Fluid Transport Across Pulmonary Epithelia; Physical, Endocrine and Growth Factors in Lung Development
N2  - This unique book provides a concise account, written by world authorities in their fields, of how the mammalian lung grows and matures before birth and how the lungs, and their ability to function well, can be affected by the environment and by genetic factors, both before and after birth. It provides an understanding of the basis of some major lung diseases affecting infants and children. The book also deals with how the lung changes with age, and how the process of lung aging can be affected by the environment. * Discusses the mechanisms that regulate th
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