Edited by
Richard Harding, Monash University, Clayton, Australia
Kent Pinkerton, University of California, Davis, USA
Charles Plopper, University of California, Davis, USA
Description
This unique book provides a concise account, written by world authorities in their fields, of how the mammalian lung grows and matures
before birth and how the lungs, and their ability to function well, can be affected by the environment and by genetic factors, both before
and after birth. It provides an understanding of the basis of some major lung diseases affecting infants and children. The book also
deals with how the lung changes with age, and how the process of lung aging can be affected by the environment.
Audience:
Graduate and post-graduate respiratory, pulmonary, thoracic scientists and physicians; pediatricians; gerontologists; perinatologists;
pharmacologists; epidemiologists and toxicological, health, environmental regulators.
