The aging lungs
Subtitle: mechanisms and clinical sequelae
By: [edited by] Richard Bucala, Patty J. Lee
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New Jersey
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789814635004
Subjects: Lung Diseases; Aging; Age Factors; Lung; Physiopathology; Anatomy & histology; Physiology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Normal development, anatomy, histology, and aging of the lung / Xuchen Zhang and Robert J. Homer; title: Physiology of the aging lung / Brienne Miner, Thomas M. Gill, and Carlos A. Vaz Fragoso; title: Aging lung, environmental and genetic factors, race, ethnicity, and gender / Holly Keyt, Stephanie Levine, and Claude Jourdan Le Saux; title: Frailty in pulmonary and critical care medicine / Cristine E. Berry and Enid R. Neptune; title: Intensive care unit outcomes in older adults / Margaret A. Pisani and Lauren Ferrante; title: Severe sepsis, pneumonia, and aging / Olufunmilayo Falade and Sachin Yende; title: Sepsis and acute lung injury in aging / Anup Srivastava, Yao Wong and Praveen Mannam; title: Acute respiratory distress syndrome : the role of mesenchymal stem cells and arising complications due to an aging lung / John Sembrat, Maria G. Kapetanaki, and Mauricio Rojas; title: The aging immune system, vaccine efficacy, and the lung / Jenna M. Bartley and Laura Haynes; title: Respiratory infection, airway colonization and chronic inflammation in aging / Chad Marion and Charles S. Dela Cruz; title: HIV, the lung and aging / Lynn M. Schnapp and Kristina Crothers; title: Geriatric pulmonary hypertension : recent epidemiologic trends and treatment update / Vanessa Yap and Raymond J. Foley; title: Growth factors and aging in pulmonary arterial hypertension / Claudio Bravo, Won Kyung Cho, and Hyung J. Chun; title: Chronic obstructive lung disease in the elderly / Jessica F. Most and Carolyn L. Rochester; title: Genomics of lung aging and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis / Brenda Juan-Guardela and Naftali Kaminski; title: Potential mechanistic links between aging and IPF / Hongyi Pan, Mridu Gulati and Erica L. Herzog; title: Telomeres and telomerase / Mary Armanios; title: Endoplasmic reticulum stress / Marta Bueno and Ana Mora; title: Autophagy and metabolism / Cecilia G. Sanchez and Jaime L. Schneider.