Gender, Sex Hormones and Respiratory Disease A Comprehensive Guide

Gender, Sex Hormones and Respiratory Disease A Comprehensive Guide / edited by Anna R. Hemnes.

This book discusses normal sex-related differences in lung structure and function and the role these differences play in lung disease. New research on the effects of sex hormone signaling on specific cell types of the lung has begun to reveal how these hormones may drive or prevent lung disease. Exp...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Hemnes, Anna R. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Humana, 2016.
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Series:Respiratory Medicine,
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Respiratory organs—Diseases.
Medicine.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1.Sex Differences in Normal Pulmonary Structure and Function at Rest and during Exercise
  • 2.Sex Hormone Signaling In The Lung In Health And Disease: Airways, Parenchyma And Pulmonary Vasculature
  • 3.Women and COPD
  • 4.Sex, gender, and asthma
  • 5.Sex hormones, sex, gender and pulmonary hypertension
  •  6.Pulmonary Fibrosis
  • 7.Sex-Specific Differences in Lung Cancer
  •  8.Lymphangioleiomyomatosis
  • 9.Developmental Lung Disease.  .

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