Biology, toxicology, and carcinogenesis of respiratory epithelium

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Biology, toxicology, and carcinogenesis of respiratory epithelium

edited by David G. Thomassen, Paul Nettesheim

Hemisphere Pub. Corp., c1990

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Based on a meeting hosted by the Lovelace Inhalation Toxicology Research Institute, Nov. 14-16, 1988 in Albuquerque, New Mexico

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This broadly-based reference resource was compiled as a result of the rapid rise in lung cancer incidence among the world's industrialized nations. Leading researchers address modern research on the respiratory epithelium.

Table of Contents

  • Tracheobronchial Epithelium "In Vitro" - composition, differentiation and response to hormones, C.G.Plopper et al
  • functions of pulmonary clara cells, G.E.R.Hook et al
  • markers for differentiated alveolar cells, L.G.Dobbs
  • responses of type 2 pneumocytes to oxidant stress, P.C.Panus and B.A.Freeman
  • formaldehyde toxicity, respiratory epithelial injury and repair, K.T.Morgan and T.M.Schuller
  • mechanisms of neuroendocrine lung cancer, H.M.Schuller
  • activated oncogenes in rodent and human lung tumors, M.You et al
  • dominant and recessive oncogenes in the pathogenesis of lung cancer, J.D.Minna.

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