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Smoking and the Lung

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Structural Aspects of Cigarette Smoke-induced Pulmonary Disease.- The Reflex Effects of Cigarette Smoking.- Carotid Body Hyperplasia.- Cocarcinogenic Effect of Tobacco Smoke in Rats.- The Act of Smoking.- The Quantitation of Smoke Uptake.- Physiological Effects of Changing Cigarette Nicotine Yield.- Proteases and Antiproteases in the Normal Human Lower Respiratory Tract.- Smoke Induced Modification of Alveolar Macrophage Activity.- Tobacco Smoke and Alveolar Cell Populations.- Proteases - Antiproteases in the Lower Respiratory Tract of Patients With Alpha 1-Antitrypsin Deficiency and Cigarette Smokers.- Breathing Other People's Smoke.- Passive Smoke.- Nicotine and the Control of Smoking Behaviour.- Work and Stress as Motives for Smoking.- Particulate Deposition in Smoking.- Elastin-lysine Derived Cross-Links Structure, Biosynthesis and Relation to Lung Emphysema Pathogenesis.- Effects of Cigarette Smoke on the Matabolism of Arachidonic Acid and Prostaglandins in Lung.- Consequences of Smoking and Smokers at Risk.- Ciliary Activity in the Respiratory Tract and the Effects of Tobacco Smoke.- The Gas Phase of Tobacco Smoke and the Development of Lung Disease.- Changes in Lung Function After Smoking Cessation Interrelationship between Smoking, Lung Function and Bodyweight.- Chronic Bronchitis and Decline in Pulmonary Function with some Suggestions on Terminology.- Does Smoking have any Influence on the Course of Restrictive Lung Disease.- The Single Breath Nitrogen Test.- The Relation between Increased Bronchial Reactivity and Annual Decline in Airway Function in Smokers.- A Comparison of the Ability of Different Lung Function Tests to Discriminate Asymptomatic Smokers and Non-Smokers.

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Authors G Bonsignore, G. Bonsignore, Cumming, G Cumming, G. Cumming
Assisted by G. Bonsignore (Editor), G. Cumming (Editor)
Publisher Springer, Berlin
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 18.10.2013
 
EAN 9781461294689
ISBN 978-1-4612-9468-9
No. of pages 504
Illustrations IX, 504 p.
Series Physics of Solids and Liquids
Physics of Solids and Liquids
Subject Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > General, dictionaries

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