Published August, 2014
By HAY and Goldie
Publisher: Springer (Birkhauser Verlag AG)
Series: Respiratory Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy
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The biology of the family of endogenous autocrine peptides known as the endothelins (ETs) has been a source of intense study for researchers since 1988, following the identification of ET-l as the previously described endothelium-derived contractile factor.

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Published November, 2012
By Y. Martinet, F.R. Hirsch, N. Martinet, J. Mulshine, J.M. Vignaud, Yves Martinet and James Mulshine
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Series: Respiratory Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy
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Lung cancer is a disease with pandemic public health implications as it is now the leading cause of cancer mortality throughout the world. The hope is that enough progress will occur to permit lung cancer detection in advance of clinical cancer so that the disease can be addressed early on, while it is still confined to the site of origin.

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Published October, 2012
By Maria G. Belvisi, Jane A. Mitchell and Maria Belvisi
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Series: Respiratory Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy
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Nitric oxide is an endogenously produced gas with a wide range of biological effects and has been implicated in many physiological and pathophysiological processes. The authors identify key areas in the history, biochemistry, physiology, pathophysiology, immunology and clinical applications of nitric oxide in the lung.

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Published October, 2012
By Mark A. Giembycz and Brian J. O'Connor
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Series: Respiratory Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy
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In the following sections, we will discuss the role of various non-invasive or relatively non-invasive methods to assess airway inflammation in asthma and concentrate on the only direct method of induced sputum examination. In his textbook The Principles and Practice of Medicine, in 1892, Sir William Osler described "bronchial asthma .

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Published October, 2012
By Robert Stockley
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Series: Respiratory Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy
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Published October, 2012
By Robert Stockley
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Series: Respiratory Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy
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Published October, 2012
By D.A. Isenberg and S. Spiro
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Series: Respiratory Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy
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Published October, 2012
By R.W. Wilmott and Robert Wilmott
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Series: Respiratory Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy
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Published October, 2012
By D.F. Rogers, M.I. Lethem and Michael Lethem
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Series: Respiratory Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy
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Conceptually unsavoury, airway mucus is vital to homeostasis in the respiratory tract. The volume concludes with a discussion of the therapeutic aspects of the topic, both in terms of the possible approaches to the treatment of mucus hypersecretion and the interaction of these drugs with airway mucus.

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Published September, 2012
By David Raeburn and Mark A. Giembycz
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Series: Respiratory Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy
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