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Asthma, Third Edition: Basic Mechanisms and Clinical Management [Hardcover]

Peter J. Barnes (Editor), Ian W. Rodger (Editor), Neil C. Thomson (Editor)

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Book Description

0120790270 978-0120790272 June 2, 1998 3
Now available in its Third Edition, Asthma: Basic Mechanisms and Clinical Management has become the reference text in asthma. This highly successful text sheds new light on the basic physiological and molecular mechanisms of asthma, how current treatments work, and how best to apply the latest knowledge to control this important disease. The Third Edition has undergone radical revision and includes several new chapters. It retains the virtues of the previous volumes by bringing together all of the recent research findings by internationally recognized experts on the causative mechanisms of asthma, including in-depth clinical aspects and therapy. The book presents an integrated approach toward the treatment of this disease with new concepts, changes in asthma management, and the development of new therapeutic agents. Asthma provides extensive references for researchers and clinicians who need to keep abreast of recent developments in this rapidly expanding field.

Key Features
* Comprehensive coverage of both basic science and clinical aspects of asthma
* Extensively referenced throughout

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"This book is clearly written... each chapter is extensively referenced and as up to date as possible... essential reading for academics and researchers in the field of asthma."
--RESPIRATORY MEDICINE
"This is still the only book on asthma that brings together recent information on basic mechanisms and covers in depth clinical aspects and therapy."
--TRENDS IN PHARMACOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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Asthma continues to be a major health problem throughout the world and affects over 5% of the population in industrialised countries. Knowledge about asthma has continued to advance very rapidly, with new concepts, changes in asthma management and the development of new therapeutic agents. There is an increasing need to understand how current treatment for asthma works and how best to apply it to control this important disease.
This timely Third Edition of Asthma, Basic Mechanisms and Clinical Management edited by Barnes, Rodger and Thomson, has undergone radical revision and includes several new chapters. It brings together all the recent information on basic mechanisms of asthma and also covers in depth clinical aspects and therapy. This integrated approach should appeal to researchers and also clinicians who need to keep abreast of recent developments in this rapidly expanding field.

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First Sentence:
Asthma remains one of the commonest disorders encountered in clinical medicine in both children and adults. Read the first page
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
airway narrowing induced, mite microhabitats, canine tracheal smooth muscle cells, airway blood flow, airway hysteresis, best lung function, mediator distribution, antiasthma effect, exercise refractoriness, plasma exudation response, canine bronchial smooth muscle, cultured human airway epithelial cells, peripheral lung resistance, human pulmonary mast cells, canine airway smooth muscle, peptide histidine valine, inhaled frusemide, acute childhood asthma, exuded plasma, mast cell heterogeneity, tracheal blood flow, luminal entry, airway smooth muscle cells, mite allergen levels, asthmatic subjects
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Respir Dis, Allergy Clin Immunol, Respir Crit Care Med, Eur Respir, Appl Physiol, Clin Invest, Clin Exp Allergy, Exp Med, Respir Cell Mol Biol, Arch Dis Child, Biol Chem, New Zealand, Clin Allergy, Proc Natl Acad Sci, Academic Press Limited, Biochem Biophys Res Commun, Clin Pharmacol, Ann Allergy, Respir Med, Pharmacol Exp Ther, New York, Clin Sci, Pulmon Pharmacol, Trends Pharmacol Sci, Dis Chest
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