Research Catalog

Title

Air pollutants and the respiratory tract / edited by W. Michael Foster, Daniel L. Costa.

Publication

Boca Raton : Taylor & Francis, 2005.

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Additional Authors

• Foster, W. Michael, 1945-
• Costa, Daniel L.

Description

xvii, 447 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Lung biology in health and disease ; v. 204

Uniform Title

Lung biology in health and disease ; v. 204.

Subjects

• Pulmonary toxicology
• Air > Pollution
• Air Pollutants > adverse effects
• Respiratory Tract Diseases > chemically induced
• Respiratory System > drug effects
• Air Pollutants > metabolism
• Risk Assessment

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Claude Lenfant -- 1. Air pollution and health effects : evidence from epidemiologic studies / Annette Peters and Douglas W. Dockery -- 2. Particulate dosimetry in the respiratory tract / William D. Bennett and James S. Brown -- 3. Bioavailability of particle-associated air pollutants and relationship to cardiopulmonary injury / Urmila P. Kodavanti and William P. Watkinson -- 4. Genetic susceptibility factors in the cardiopulmonary response to air pollution / Terry Gordon -- 5. Air pollutants, epithelial surfaces, and lung disease / Jeffrey G. Sherman, Janice L. Peake, Viviana J. Wong and Kent E. Pinkerton -- 6. Irritant agonists and air pollutants : neurologically mediated respiratory and cardiovascular responses / Stephen H. Gavett, Marian Kollarik and Bradley J. Undem -- 7. Signal transduction and cytokine expression in particulate matter (PM)-induced airway remodeling / Dianne M. Walters and James C. Bonner -- 8. Chronic exposure and susceptibility to oxidant air pollutants / Ira B. Tager -- 9. Pulmonary toxicity of occupational and environmental exposures to fibers and nano-sized particulate / David B. Warheit -- 10. Biological airborne pollutants / Harriet A. Burge -- 11. Combustion emissions : contribution to air pollution, human exposure and risk to cancer, and related effects / Joellen Lewtas -- 12. Air pollution, public health, and regulatory considerations / Morton Lippmann.

ISBN

0824723732 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2005047809
• 9780824723736

OCLC

• ocm59756113
• SCSB-5204213

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries