Environmental factors in respiratory disease /

Environmental Factors in Respiratory Disease provides an overview of the state of knowledge on the role of environmental factors in respiratory disease. The book opens with a discussion of some trends and developments which bear on concerns with respiratory disease and the environment. This is follo...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores Corporativos: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, John E. Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study in the Health Sciences
Otros Autores: Lee, Douglas H. K. (Douglas Harry Kedgwin), 1905-2005 (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Academic Press, 1972.
Colección:Environmental sciences.
Fogarty International Center proceedings ; no. 11.
Temas:
Respiratory organs > Diseases.
Air > Pollution > Toxicology.
Air > Pollution.
Air > Pollution > Physiological effect.
Air Pollution
Respiratory Tract Diseases
Appareil respiratoire > Maladies.
Air > Pollution > Effets physiologiques.
air pollution.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
MEDICAL > Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL > Internal Medicine.
Air > Pollution > Physiological effect
Air > Pollution
Air > Pollution > Toxicology
Respiratory organs > Diseases
Congress
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congr�es.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover; Environmental Factors in Respiratotory Disease; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; CONTRIBUTORS; EDITORIAL COMMENT; CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION: A CHANGING ENVIRONMENT -A PROBLEM FOR ALL; CHANGING PATTERNS IN HEALTH; CHANGING PATTERNS IN TECHNOLOGY; COMMENT; REFERENCES; PART I: THE LUNG AND ITS BASIC REACTIONS; CHAPTER 2. ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF THE LUNG; AIRWAYS; PULMONARY CIRCULATION; THE TERMINAL RESPIRATORY UNITS; METHODS OF STUDY; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 3. TRACHEOBRONCHIAL RESPONSE TO INSULT; ACUTE RESPONSES; CHRONIC RESPONSES; NEOPLASIA; REFERENCES
  • CHAPTER 4. MODES OF ALVEOLAR RESPONSE TO INSULTORGANIZATION OF THE ALVEOLAR ZONE; CONTROL OF ALVEOLAR FLUID; CLEARANCE FAILURE; INTERSTITIAL CONNECTIVE TISSUE; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 5. THE EFFECTS OF CHRONIC RESPIRATORY DISEASE ON THE FUNCTION OF THE LUNGS AND HEART; RESTRICTION OF INSPIRATION; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; MALDISTRIBUTION OF AIR AND BLOOD IN THE LUNGS; IMPAIRMENT OF OXYGEN DIFFUSION; REFERENCES; PART II: LUNG RESPONSES TO ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; CHAPTER 6. AIRBORNE CONTAMINANTS; SOURCES, NATURE, AND RELATION TO RESPIRATORY EFFECTS; ENTRY INTO AND REMOVAL FROM THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM
  • CHAPTER 10. HOST VARIABLES IN PULMONARY RESPONSES TO THE ENVIRONMENTDEFENSE MECHANISMS; METHOD OF MEASUREMENT; BASELINE MEASUREMENTS IN NORMALS; EFFECTS OF SINGLE AGENTS; INTERACTIONS AND MULTIPLE EFFECTS; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 11. INTERACTION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE AND AIR POLLUTANTS: INFLUENCE OF TOLERANCE
  • BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; VIRUS INFECTION; MODE OF ACTION; ENHANCEMENT BY CHRONIC EXPOSURE; TOLERANCE TO OXIDANT GASES; INTERACTION OF NONOXIDANT AIR POLLUTANTS WITH INFECTIOUS AGENTS; IMPLICATIONS FOR AIR QUALITY CRITERIA; REFERENCES; PART III: SOME SPECIAL PROBLEMS
  • CHAPTER 12. SMOKING HABITS AND AIR POLLUTION IN RELATION TO LUNG CANCERSMOKING; URBAN AIR POLLUTION; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 13. OCCUPATIONAL LUNG DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL LUNG DISEASES-1971; IMPORTANT VARIABLES; ENVIRONMENTAL CONSIDERATIONS; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 14. EPIDEMIC ASTHMA; SEASONAL VARIATIONS; CASTOR POMACE ALLERGY; NEW ORLEANS ASTHMA; MINNEAPOLIS ASTHMA; YOKOHAMA ASTHMA; SUMMARY; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 15. ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS IN BRONCHIAL ASTHMA; SEASON OF THE YEAR; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; AIR POLLUTION; SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES

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