Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease pathogenesis to treatment.

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Group Author: Chadwick, Derek.; Goode, Jamie
Published:
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Novartis Foundation symposium ; 234.
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Online Access: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/0470868678
Item Description: Edited by Derek Chadwick and Jamie A. Goode.
Based on a symposium held at the Novartis Foundation, London, 25-27 January 2000.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (ix, 286 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN: 047086866X
9780470868669
0471494372
9780471494379
0470868678
9780470868676
Index Number: RC776
CLC: R563-532
Contents: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease : an overview of pathology and pathogenesis / James C. Hogg -- Overview of current therapies / Peter M.A. Calverley -- Genetics of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease / Edwin K. Silverman -- Mucus hypersecretion in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease / Duncan F. Rogers -- Mechanisms of exacerbations / Jadwiga A. Wedzicha -- Epithelial cells and fibroblasts / Stephen I. Rennard -- Macrophage control of inflammation : negative pathways of regulation of inflammatory cytokines / Alberto Mantovani, Marta Muzio, Cecilia Garlanda, Silvano Sozzani and Paola Allavena -- Neutrophils in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease / Timothy J. Williams and Peter J. Jose -- Lymphocytes, chronic bronchitis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease / Peter K. Jeffery -- Oxidants/antioxidants and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease : pathogenesis to therapy / William MacNee -- Proteases and antiproteases / Robert A. Stockley -- Matrix metalloproteinases and TIMPs : properties and implications for the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease / Tim Cawston, Severine Carrere, Jon Catterall, Richard Duggleby, Sarah Elliott, Bill Shingleton and Andrew Rowan -- Pulmonary alveolus formation : critical period, retinoid regulation and plasticity / Donald Massaro and Gloria DeCarlo Massaro -- Systemic effects of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease / Alvar G.N. Agustí -- Potential novel therapies for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease / Peter J. Barnes.