Air Pollution: Physiological Effects
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Air Pollution: Physiological Effects

  1. 353 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Air Pollution: Physiological Effects

About this book

Air Pollution—Physiological Effects focuses on the physiological effects of air pollution and reviews research findings concerning physiological responses to air pollutants such as oxidant gases, sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, and particulates. Topics range from cellular cytotoxicity and lung infections to carbon monoxide toxicity, deposition of aerosols to the respiratory airway, physiological effects of cotton dusts and lead dusts, and workers' exposure to dust at high altitude. This book is organized in three sections and is comprised of 11 chapters. The discussion begins with an overview of cellular cytotoxicity and the biochemical basis of oxidative cell killing. The reader is methodically introduced to the effects of minute concentrations of pollutants on animal respiratory defenses, air pollution by sulfur products, and mechanisms of carbon monoxide toxicity. Consideration is also given to alterations in airway mechanics that occur with exposures to ozone, nitrogen dioxide, and sulfur dioxide, as well as the mechanisms that might be responsible for these changes in breathing mechanics. The rest of the book discusses both particulate (silica, diesel, cotton, and lead dusts) pollution and the special physiological problems posed by working at high altitudes in dusty environments. This book will be useful not only to environmental health scientists but also to students and researchers in areas peripheral to environmental physiology.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Air Pollution—Physiological Effects
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Contributors
  6. Preface
  7. Cahpter 1. The Biochemistry of Cytotoxicity
  8. Cahpter 2. Effects of Gases and Airborne Particles on Lung Infections
  9. Cahpter 3. Toxic Effects of SO2 on the Respiratory System
  10. Cahpter 4. The Effect of Gaseous Pollutants on Breathing Mechanics and Airway Reactivity
  11. Cahpter 5. Carbon Monoxide Toxicity
  12. Cahpter 6. Physiological Effects of Carbon Monoxide
  13. Cahpter 7. Respiratory Airway Deposition of Aerosols
  14. Cahpter 8. Mechanisms of Silica and Diesel Dust Injury to the Lung
  15. Cahpter 9. Physiological Effects of Cotton Dusts: Byssinosis
  16. Cahpter 10. Physiological Effects of Lead Dusts
  17. Cahpter 11. Work at High Altitude in Dusty Environments
  18. Index