Metabolic activities of the lung.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Conference Name:

Symposium on Metabolic Functions of the Lung (1980 : London)

Series:

Ciba Foundation symposium ; new ser. 78.

Ciba Foundation symposium ; 78 (new ser.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lungs--Congresses.

Metabolism--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (414 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Excerpta Medica ; New York, N.Y. : Elsevier/North-Holland, 1980.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Novartis Foundation Series is a popular collection of the proceedings from Novartis Foundation Symposia, in which groups of leading scientists from a range of topics across biology, chemistry and medicine assembled to present papers and discuss results. The Novartis Foundation, originally known as the Ciba Foundation, is well known to scientists and clinicians around the world.

Contents:

Metabolic Activities of the Lung; Contents; introduction; Ultrastructural organization of the alveolar-capillary unit; Discussion; Hypoxia and pulmonary vascular endothelium; Discussion; Methods for the study of lung metabolism; Discussion; Substrate utilization by the lung; Discussion; Inactivation of monoamines by the lung; Discussion; The fate of circulating biologically active peptides in the lungs; Discussion; The lung as a generator of prostacyclin; Discussion; Interrelationships between prostacyclin and thromboxane A2; Discussion

Regulation of pulmonary arachidonic acid metabolism by anti-inflammatory steroids Discussion; Slow-reacting substances and their structural elucidation; Discussion; The lung in relation to vasoactive polypeptides; Discussion; Endocrine influences on aspects of lung biochemistry; Discussion; Hormonal influences during fetal lung development; Discussion; Pulmonary angiotensin-converting enzyme and its inhibition: a historical survey; Discussion; Modulation of converting enzyme activity by hypoxia and its physiological effect?; Discussion

Non-respiratory functions of the lung in the perinatal period Discussion; Prostaglandin receptors in the airways; Discussion; The lung, whole-body metabolism and disease; Discussion; General discussion; Surface charge and pulmonary endothelial transport; Metabolic studies and clinical applications; Summing-up; Index of contributors; Subject index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786613694294

9781280783906

1280783907

9780470720615

0470720611

9780470718292

0470718293

OCLC:

797918466