The Lung

Molecular Basis of Disease

Jerome S. Brody (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

236 Seiten

1998 | Annotated edition
W B Saunders Co Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-7216-6814-7 (ISBN)

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Enables physicians to understand how molecular biology impacts pulmonary medicine, and to understand the advances in pulmonary medicine that require familiarity with molecular biology concepts. Each chapter uses a specific pulmonary disease to illustrate how molecular biology impacts the practice of pulmonary medicine.

This unique and user-friendly resource for clinicians will provide sufficient background to enable physicians to understand how molecular biology is now impacting pulmonary medicine, and to understand the coming advances in pulmonary medicine that will require familiarity with molecular biology concepts. Each chapter begins with a list of basic concepts to be discussed and ends with a limited number of selected annotated references. In addition, each chapter uses a specific pulmonary disease to illustrate how molecular biology impacts the practice of pulmonary medicine.

The Basics. Tuberculosis. Neuromuscular Diseases: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Alveolar Proteinosis in the Adult and Newborn: A Knockout Surprise and a Surfactant Gene Mutation. Antitrypsin Deficiency: The Perfect Disease for Gene Therapy. Cystic Fibrosis: The Genetic Disease. Lung Cancer: An Introduction to DNA Synthesis and Repair, To the Cell Cycle and to What Can Go Wrong. Developmental Biology: How Does the Lung Get that Way? Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. Back to Genetics: The Human Genome Project and Asthma.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.4.1998
Zusatzinfo	109 ills
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	159 x 235 mm
Gewicht	470 g
Themenwelt	Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Innere Medizin ► Pneumologie
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Genetik / Molekularbiologie
ISBN-10	0-7216-6814-3 / 0721668143
ISBN-13	978-0-7216-6814-7 / 9780721668147
Zustand	Neuware