Title | Molecular Biology of Acute Lung Injury [electronic resource] / edited by Hector R. Wong, Thomas P. Shanley |
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Imprint | Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2001 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1427-5 |
Descript | XIII, 329 p. online resource |
1. Signal Transduction Pathways in Acute Lung Injury: NF-?B and AP-1 -- 2. Innate Immune Mechanisms Triggering Lung Injury -- 3. The Role of Chemokines in the Recruitment of Leukocytes During Lung Inflammation -- 4. Regulation of Lung Immunity: Significance of the Cytokine Environment -- 5. Role of Complement in Acute Lung Injury -- 6. Oxidant Stress in Acute Lung Injury -- 7. Endogenous Nitric Oxide in Acute Lung Injury -- 8. Heme Oxygenase-1 in Acute Lung Injury -- 9. Pulmonary Endothelial Surface Redox Activity: Roles in Propagation of and Protection from Injury -- 10. Mechanisms of Lung Epithelial Cell Injury by Pseudomonas Aeruginosa -- 11. Alveolar Epithelial Repair in Acute Lung Injury -- 12. Molecular Basis for Surfactant Function in ARDS -- 13. Pulmonary Collectins and Defensins -- 14. Lung Repair, Remodeling, and Fibrosis -- 15. Apoptosis in Acute Lung Injury -- 16. Corticosteroid Treatment in Unresolving ARDS -- 17. Anti-inflammatory Cytokines: Role in Regulation of Acute Lung Injury -- 18. The Heat Shock Response and Heat Shock Protein 70: Cytoprotection in Acute Lung Injury -- 19. Biotrauma: Signal Transduction and Gene Expression in the Lung