Lung Injury: Mechanisms, Pathophysiology, and Therapy PDF

Preface

This book attempts the challenging task of providing an integrated synopsis of basic concepts, topical review, and clinical therapies relevant for pulmonary inflammation and acute and chronic lung injury. Individual chapters have been written separately, but the authors and editors have made a conscious effort to integrate coverage and emphasize connections between different areas of lung injury research and applied therapeutics. Coverage in each chapter typically proceeds from general principles and concepts to specific discussion and review of current research perspectives. The direct complementarity between mechanistic basic science understanding and clinical therapies is a major area of focus. In particular, current and evolving treatments for clinical lung injury in the latter part of the book are presented in the context of basic science understanding and research perspectives developed in preceding chapters. The editors and chapter authors hope very much that the book will prove useful to a broad audience of basic biomedical researchers and physician-scientists working in pulmonary biology, toxicology, and pulmonology, as well as to physicians-in-training and graduate students interested in learning about lung injury and its important clinical consequences.