Description

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Chapter 1 Generalities of gas diffusion applied to the vertebrate blood-gas barriers.- Chapter 2 Morphological and morphometric properties of the blood-gas barrier: comparative perspectives.- Chapter 3 Prenatal and postnatal development of the vertebrate blood-gas barrier.- Chapter 4 Molecular mechanisms regulating the pulmonary blood-gas barrier (BGB).- Chapter 5 Barrier enhancing signals.- Chapter 6 Trans-barrier ion and fluid transport.- Chapter 7 Stress failure of the pulmonary blood-gas barrier.- Chapter 8 The lung endothelial barrier in acute inflammation.- Chapter 9 Lung transplantation and the blood-gas-barrier.- Chapter 10 Stereological studies on transient gas-exchangers, with emphasis on the structure and function of the human placenta in normal and compromised pregnancies.

About the Author

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About the EditorDr. Andrew N Makanya received his MSc and PhD from the University of Nairobi in Nairobi, Kenya, and his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from the University of Bern in Bern, Switzerland. He is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Veterinary Anatomy and Physiology at the University of Nairobi and is a practicing veterinary surgeon. His research interests include lung development and function, angiogenesis, and differentiation and remodeling of the blood-gas barrier, and he has published widely in these areas. Dr. Makanya is also chairman of the Board of Governors of two secondary schools in Kenya, and participates actively in community development programs focusing on schools, churches, and children's homes.