Author: Nicolaas ten HackenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Airway Inflammation in Nocturnal Asthma
Author: Nicolaas ten HackenAirway Inflammation in Nocturnal Asthma
Author: Nick ten HackenNocturnal Asthma
Author: Peter J. BarnesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
New Developments in Asthma Research
Author: Amy P. MillerPublisher: Nova Publishers
ISBN: 9781600210549
Category : Asthma
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Asthma is a disease that affects the lungs. It causes repeated episodes of wheezing, breathlessness, chest tightness, and night-time or early morning coughing. Tens of millions of people throughout the world suffer from asthma. Airways are the paths that carry air to the lungs. As the air moves through the lungs, the airways become smaller, like branches of a tree. During an attack, the sides of the airways in the lungs become inflamed and swollen. Muscles around the airways tighten, and less air passes in and out of the lungs. Excess mucus forms in the airways, clogging them even more. The attack, also called an episode, can include coughing, chest tightness, wheezing, and trouble breathing. Environmental exposures, such as house dust mites and environmental tobacco smoke, are important triggers of an attack. This book presents important new research on the causes on asthma as well as its diagnosis and treatment.
Current Review of Asthma
Author: Michael A. KalinerPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9781573401951
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
This comprehensive source of up-to-date information on asthma diagnosis and treatment offers concise discussions on concomitant diseases and treatment choices. Coverage includes epidemiology, pathology, airway remodeling, and pathophysiology. Each chapter offers a topic overview, followed by an analysis of current understanding, supplemented by charts, tables, and graphs. Dr. Michael A. Kaliner, the editor, contributes a chapter, "The Pathogenesis of Bronchial Asthma," drawing on his 30 years of clinical experience.
Airway Inflammation in Nocturnal Asthma
Author: Nicolaas Hubertus Theodorus ten HackenPublisher:
ISBN: 9789036708807
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Inflammatory Mechanisms in Asthma
Author: Stephen HolgatePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351438492
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 1006
Book Description
This timely volume brings together the latest basic and clinical insights on the cellular and mediator mechanisms involved in the induction and persistence of airway dysfunction of asthma by over 90 experts in the field-paving the way for developing novel and more effective antiinflammatory therapeutic agents and strategies. Furnishing a comprehensive and up-to-date view of the expanding and interrelated components underlying asthma pathogenesis, Inflammatory Mechanisms in Asthma describes how evidence on airway inflammation is obtained with invasive and noninvasive procedures, such as bronchoalveolar lavage and sputum analysis reviews the complex interactions of inflammatory cells that contribute to chronic inflammation and bronchial hyperreactivity, including eosinophils, basophils, neutrophils, fibroblasts, epithelial cells, and macrophages considers mast cells, cytokines, neural factors, leukotrienes, kinins, and other mediators that regulate the development, establishment, or resolution of asthma exacerbations presents new information suggesting that airway changes in asthma can lead to remodeling or airway fibrosis and more! Enhanced with over 4700 references, tables, drawings, and photographs, this compelling investigation into the pathophysiology of asthma is an indispensable resource for pulmonologists, physiologists, immunologists, allergists, epidemiologists, biochemists, molecular biologists, and graduate and medical school students in these disciplines.
Asthma
Author: Friedrich KummerPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3709175399
Category : Medical
Languages : de
Pages : 203
Book Description
Die strukturellen Veränderungen der Bronchialschleimhaut beim Asthma sind zwar Folge der zellulären Interaktionen, aber wesentlich träger als diese und bilden die Basis für später irreversible Funktionsstörungen. Daher ist die frühe antientzündliche Therapie so wichtig. Für diese wieder scheint das Theophyllin zunehmend interessant zu werden, wie aus neuesten in vitro und in vivo Untersuchungen hervorgeht.
Inflammatory Cells and Mediators in Bronchial Asthma
Author: Devendra K. AgrawalPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1000098931
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Inflammatory Cells and Mediators in Bronchial Asthma provides reviews and summaries regarding state-of-the-art articles that examine the role of various inflammatory cells and their mediators in the pathogenesis of asthma. Topics include pharmacological and biochemical regulation of the airways; involvement of key inflammatory cells and the release and effect of their mediators in airway function; and the characteristics of receptors for leukotriene B4, C4, and D4, adenosine, platelet-activating factor, sensory and inflammatory peptides, and the effect of various anti-asthmatic drugs on airway inflammation. Physicians, allergists, immunologists, and pulmonary disease research scientists will find this book to be an invaluable reference resource.
Therapeutic Targets in Airway Inflammation
Author: N. Tony EissaPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 0203911474
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
Book Description
This reference examines the cellular, molecular, and genetic mechanisms involved in airway inflammation, as well as the pathophysiology, epidemiology, and aetiology of asthma. It explores strategies to prevent cellular injury and oxidative tissue damage, inhibit key inflammatory pathways and identify disease-specific targets to reduce the induction