The vertebrate blood-gas barrier in health and disease : structure, development and remodeling /: structure, development and remodeling. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Andrew N. Makanya, editor.
• Editors: Makanya, Andrew N
• Contents: Chapter 1 Generalities of gas diffusion applied to the vertebrate blood-gas barriers -- Chapter 2 Morphological and morphometric properties of the blood-gas barrier: comparative perspectives -- Chapter 3 Prenatal and postnatal development of the vertebrate blood-gas barrier -- Chapter 4 Molecular mechanisms regulating the pulmonary blood-gas barrier (BGB) -- Chapter 5 Barrier enhancing signals -- Chapter 6 Trans-barrier ion and fluid transport -- Chapter 7 Stress failure of the pulmonary blood-gas barrier -- Chapter 8 The lung endothelial barrier in acute inflammation -- Chapter 9 Lung transplantation and the blood-gas-barrier -- Chapter 10 Stereological studies on transient gas-exchangers, with emphasis on the structure and function of the human placenta in normal and compromised pregnancies.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 243 pages), color illustrations
• Subjects: 573.1/5; Medicine; Blood gases; Blood gases -- Analysis; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Physical; Blood gases; Blood gases -- Analysis; Biomedicine; Human Physiology; Pneumology/Respiratory System; Angiology; Blood-Air Barrier; Medical -- Pulmonary & Thoracic Medicine; Medical -- Internal Medicine; Respiratory medicine; Cardiovascular medicine; Human physiology; Pneumology; Angiography; Medical -- Physiology; Physiology; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319183923; 3319183923; 3319183915; 9783319183916
• Related ISBNs: 9783319183916
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed September 1, 2015).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.