Lung growth and development by John Alexander McDonald

By John Alexander McDonald

Displays the explosion of knowledge and technological breakthroughs that experience facilitated investigations into the advance of the lung-including recombinant DNA expertise, molecular genetics, transgenics, and advances in lung mobile and mo-lecular biology. presents approximately 2800 bibliographic citations and over a hundred and seventy tables, drawings, and x-rays to aid make clear particular discussions.

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This topic is reviewed by Shannon and Deterding, whose careful experimental approaches have contributed much to this area. They provide a conceptual setting, followed by a comprehensive and informative discussion of important historical and recent work in this area. , extracellular matrix) as well as growth factors is covered. Chapters 5–10 deal with cytodifferentiation and the development of specific lung tissues, including the conducting and alveolar epithelium, airway gland growth and differentiation, Clara cells, smooth muscle, vasculature, and innervation.

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