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Lung surfactants : basic science and clinical applications

Title
Lung surfactants : basic science and clinical applications / Robert H. Notter.
Author
Notter, Robert H.
Publication
New York : Marcel Dekker, [2000], ©2000.

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Description
xiii, 444 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Lung biology in health and disease ; v. 149
Uniform Title
Lung biology in health and disease ; v. 149.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction / Claude Lenfant -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Introduction to Surface Tension and Surfactants -- 3. Phospholipids: Introduction to Structure and Biophysics -- 4. Physicochemical Methods for Studying Lung Surfactants -- 5. Lung Surfactant Materials, Research Complexities, and Interdisciplinary Correlations -- 6. Discovery of Endogenous Lung Surfactant and Overview of Its Metabolism and Actions -- 7. Analyses of Surfactant Activity and Its Contribution to Lung Mechanics and Stability -- 8. Functional Composition and Component Biophysics and Endogenous Lung Surfactant -- 9. Lung Surfactant Dysfunction -- 10. Diseases of Lung Surfactant Deficiency or Dysfunction -- 11. Lung Surfactant Replacement in Animal Models -- 12. Clinical Surfactant Replacement Therapy for Neonatal RDS -- 13. Surfactant and Combined-Modality Therapies for Clinical ARDS and Acute Lung Injury -- 14. Exogenous Lung Surfactants: Current and Future.
ISBN
0824704010 (alk. paper)
LCCN
00031583
OCLC
  • 44076139
  • ocm44076139
  • SCSB-3958856
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries