edited by Mauricio Rojas, Dorothy P. and Richard P. Simmons Center for Interstitial Lung Diseases, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, Silke Meiners, Comprehensive Pneumology Center (CPC), University Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Munich, Germany, Claude Jourdan Le Saux, University of Texas Health Science Center, Division of Cardiology and Pulmonary and Critical Care, San Antonio, Texas, USA.
Hoboken, New Jersey :
Wiley Blackwell,
[2014]
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The demography of aging / David E. Bloom and Sinead Shannon -- The "OMICS" of aging : insights from genomes upon stress / Ismene Karakasilioti, Anna Ioannidou, and George A. Garinis -- Protein quality control coming of age / Silke Meiners -- Telomerase function in aging / Rodrigo T. Calado -- The cellular senescence progtam / Pooja Shivshankar and Claude Jourdan Lesaux -- Signaling networks controlling cellular senescence / Leena P. Desar, Yan Y. Sanders, and Victor J. Thannickal -- Immune senescence / Kevin P. High -- Developmental and physiological aging of the lung / Kent E. Pinkerton, Lei Wang, Suzette M. Smiley-Jewell, Jingyi Xu, and Francis H. Y. Green -- Mouse models to explore the aging lung / Mingyi Wang and Deepak A. Deshpande -- Evidence for premature lung aging of the injured neonatal lung as exemplified by bronchopulmonary dysplasia / Anne Hilgenderff -- Remodeling of the extracellular matrix in the aging lung / Jesse Roman -- Aging Mesenchymal Stem Cells in lung disease / Maria G. Kapetanaki, Ana L. Mora, and Mauricio Rojas -- COPD as a disease of premature aging / Laurent Boyer, Jorge Boczkowski, and Serge Adnot -- Lung infections and aging / Jacqueline M. Kehler and Keith C. Meyer.