The Pulmonary Endothelium – Function in health and disease

Norbert Voelkel and Sharon Rounds are the authors of The Pulmonary Endothelium: Function in Health and Disease, published by Wiley.

List of Contributors Introduction, Sharon Rounds and Norbert Voelkel SECTION I: NORMAL PULMONARY ENDOTHELIUM. STRUCTURE, FUNCTION, CELL BIOLOGY 1: Development of the Pulmonary Endothelium in Development of the Pulmonary Circulation: Vasculogenesis and Angiogenesis, Margaret A. Schwarz and Ondine B. Cleaver 2: Anatomy of the Pulmonary Endothelium, Radu V. Stan 3: Cadherins and Connexins in Pulmonary Endothelial Function, Kaushik Parthasarathi and Sadiqa K. Quadri 4: Pulmonary Endothelial Cell Interactions with the Extracellular Matrix, Katie L. Grinnell and Elizabeth O. Harrington 5: Pulmonary Endothelial Cell Calcium Signaling and Regulation of Lung Vascular Barrier Function, Nebojsa Knezevic, Mohammad Tauseef and Dolly Mehta 6: Pulmonary Endothelium and Nitric Oxide, Yunchao Su and Edward R. Block 7: Pulmonary Endothelial Cell Surface Metabolic Functions, Usamah S. Kayyali and Barry L. Fanburg 8: Cell Biology of Lung Endothelial Permeability, Guochang Hu and Richard D. Minshall 9: Lung Endothelial Phenotypes: Insights Derived from the Systematic Study of Calcium Channels, Donna L. Cioffi, Songwei Wu and Troy Stevens 10: Pulmonary Endothelial Interactions with Leukocytes and Platelets, Rosana Souza Rodrigues and Guy A. Zimmerman 11: Mesenchymal-Endothelial Interactions in the Control of Angiogenic, Inflammatory, and Fibrotic Responses in the Pulmonary Circulation, Kurt R. Stenmark, Evgenia V. Gerasimovskaya, Neil Davie and Maria Frid 12: Pulmonary Endothelium and Vasomotor Control, Nikki L. Jernigan, Benjimen R. Walker and Thomas C. Resta 13: Pulmonary Endothelial Progenitor Cells, Bernard Thebaud and Mervin C. Yoder 14: Bronchial Vasculature: The Other Pulmonary Circulation, Elizabeth Wagner 15: Mapping Protein Expression on Pulmonary Vascular Endothelium, Kerri A. Massey and Jan E. Schnitzer SECTION II: MECHANISMS AND CONSEQUENCES OF PULMONARY ENDOTHELIAL CELL INJURY 16: Pulmonary Endothelial Cell Death: Implications for Lung Disease Pathogenesis, Qing Lu and Sharon Rounds 17: Oxidant-Mediated Signaling and Injury in Pulmonary Endothelium, Kenneth E. Chapman, Shampa Chatterjee and Aron B. Fisher 18: Hypoxia and the Pulmonary Endothelium, Matthew Jankowich, Gaurav Choudhary, and Sharon Rounds 19: Viral Infection and Pulmonary Endothelial Cells, Norbert F. Voelkel 20: Effects of Pressure and Flow on the Pulmonary Endothelium, Wolfgang M. Kuebler 21: Therapeutic Strategies to Limit Lung Endothelial Cell Permeability, Rachel K. Wolfson, Gabriel Lang, Jeff Jacobson and Joe G. N. Garcia 22: Targeted Delivery of Biotherapeutics to the Pulmonary Endothelium, Vladimir R. Muzykantov SECTION III: PULMONARY ENDOTHELIUM IN DISEASE 23: Endothelial Regulation of the Pulmonary Circulation in the Fetus and Newborn, Yuansheng Gao and J. Usha Raj 24: Genetic Insights into Endothelial Barrier Regulation in the Acutely Inflamed Lung, Sumegha Mitra, Daniel Turner Lloveras, Shwu-Fan Ma and Joe G. N. Garcia 25: Interactions of Pulmonary Endothelial Cells with Immune Cells and Platelets: Implications for Disease Pathogenesis, Mark R. Nicolls, Rasa Tamosiuniene, Ashok N. Babu and Norbert F. Voelkel 26: Role of the Endothelium in Emphysema: Emphysema - A Lung Microvascular Disease, Norbert F. Voelkel and Ramesh Natarajan 27: Pulmonary Endothelium and Pulmonary Hypertension, Rubin M. Tuder and Serpil C. Erzurum 28: Collagen Vascular Diseases and Pulmonary Endothelium, Pradeep R. Rai and Carlyne D. Cool 29: Pulmonary Endothelium in Thromboembolism, Irene M. Lang 30: Pulmonary Endothelium and Malignancies, Abu-Bakr Al-Mehdi Epilogue, Norbert F. Voelkel Index