The Pulmonary Endothelium

Function in Health and Disease
Ed.: Voelkel, Norbert; Rounds, Sharon

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A uniquely comprehensive compendium of our current knowledge of the pulmonary endothelium
Provides the clinician with the most up to date information on one of the core physiological processes in airway disease
First book dedicated specifically to the pulmonary endothelium, offering insights into current and future approaches to management

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 14572361000
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 532
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 255mm x 197mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 1242g
• ISBN-13: 9780470723616
• ISBN-10: 0470723610
• Artikelnr.: 25645650

Autorenporträt

Norbert Voelkel and Sharon Rounds are the authors of The Pulmonary Endothelium: Function in Health and Disease, published by Wiley.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors Introduction
Sharon Rounds and Norbert Voelkel SECTION I: NORMAL PULMONARY ENDOTHELIUM. STRUCTURE
FUNCTION
CELL BIOLOGY 1: Development of the Pulmonary Endothelium in Development of the Pulmonary Circulation: Vasculogenesis and Angiogenesis
Margaret A. Schwarz and Ondine B. Cleaver 2: Anatomy of the Pulmonary Endothelium
Radu V. Stan 3: Cadherins and Connexins in Pulmonary Endothelial Function
Kaushik Parthasarathi and Sadiqa K. Quadri 4: Pulmonary Endothelial Cell Interactions with the Extracellular Matrix
Katie L. Grinnell and Elizabeth O. Harrington 5: Pulmonary Endothelial Cell Calcium Signaling and Regulation of Lung Vascular Barrier Function
Nebojsa Knezevic
Mohammad Tauseef and Dolly Mehta 6: Pulmonary Endothelium and Nitric Oxide
Yunchao Su and Edward R. Block 7: Pulmonary Endothelial Cell Surface Metabolic Functions
Usamah S. Kayyali and Barry L. Fanburg 8: Cell Biology of Lung Endothelial Permeability
Guochang Hu and Richard D. Minshall 9: Lung Endothelial Phenotypes: Insights Derived from the Systematic Study of Calcium Channels
Donna L. Cioffi
Songwei Wu and Troy Stevens 10: Pulmonary Endothelial Interactions with Leukocytes and Platelets
Rosana Souza Rodrigues and Guy A. Zimmerman 11: Mesenchymal-Endothelial Interactions in the Control of Angiogenic
Inflammatory
and Fibrotic Responses in the Pulmonary Circulation
Kurt R. Stenmark
Evgenia V. Gerasimovskaya
Neil Davie and Maria Frid 12: Pulmonary Endothelium and Vasomotor Control
Nikki L. Jernigan
Benjimen R. Walker and Thomas C. Resta 13: Pulmonary Endothelial Progenitor Cells
Bernard Thébaud and Mervin C. Yoder 14: Bronchial Vasculature: The Other Pulmonary Circulation
Elizabeth Wagner 15: Mapping Protein Expression on Pulmonary Vascular Endothelium
Kerri A. Massey and Jan E. Schnitzer SECTION II: MECHANISMS AND CONSEQUENCES OF PULMONARY ENDOTHELIAL CELL INJURY 16: Pulmonary Endothelial Cell Death: Implications for Lung Disease Pathogenesis
Qing Lu and Sharon Rounds 17: Oxidant-Mediated Signaling and Injury in Pulmonary Endothelium
Kenneth E. Chapman
Shampa Chatterjee and Aron B. Fisher 18: Hypoxia and the Pulmonary Endothelium
Matthew Jankowich
Gaurav Choudhary
and Sharon Rounds 19: Viral Infection and Pulmonary Endothelial Cells
Norbert F. Voelkel 20: Effects of Pressure and Flow on the Pulmonary Endothelium
Wolfgang M. Kuebler 21: Therapeutic Strategies to Limit Lung Endothelial Cell Permeability
Rachel K. Wolfson
Gabriel Lang
Jeff Jacobson and Joe G. N. Garcia 22: Targeted Delivery of Biotherapeutics to the Pulmonary Endothelium
Vladimir R. Muzykantov SECTION III: PULMONARY ENDOTHELIUM IN DISEASE 23: Endothelial Regulation of the Pulmonary Circulation in the Fetus and Newborn
Yuansheng Gao and J. Usha Raj 24: Genetic Insights into Endothelial Barrier Regulation in the Acutely Inflamed Lung
Sumegha Mitra
Daniel Turner Lloveras
Shwu-Fan Ma and Joe G. N. Garcia 25: Interactions of Pulmonary Endothelial Cells with Immune Cells and Platelets: Implications for Disease Pathogenesis
Mark R. Nicolls
Rasa Tamosiuniene
Ashok N. Babu and Norbert F. Voelkel 26: Role of the Endothelium in Emphysema: Emphysema - A Lung Microvascular Disease
Norbert F. Voelkel and Ramesh Natarajan 27: Pulmonary Endothelium and Pulmonary Hypertension
Rubin M. Tuder and Serpil C. Erzurum 28: Collagen Vascular Diseases and Pulmonary Endothelium
Pradeep R. Rai and Carlyne D. Cool 29: Pulmonary Endothelium in Thromboembolism
Irene M. Lang 30: Pulmonary Endothelium and Malignancies
Abu-Bakr Al-Mehdi Epilogue
Norbert F. Voelkel Index