Environmental ImPatt on the Airways

General Defense Mechanisms to Airway Injury

Environmental Injuries of the Airways: Overview of Mechanisms and Pathology, Jacques Chrétien and Micheline Nébut
Morphological Characteristics of Human Airway Structures: Diversity and Unity, Claire J. Danel
Immunological Defenses in Airways, Dario Olivieri, Alberto Pesci, and Guiseppina Bertorelli
Nonimmunological Cellular Defense Mechanisms in Airways, J. F. Bernaundin, Roger Lacave, Anne Fajac, and Thierry Urban
Role of Neural Mechanisms in Airway Defense, Peter J. Barnes
Role of Peptidases in Airway Defense Mechanisms, Giovanni Piedimonte and Jay A. Nadel

Airway Remodeling and Repair in Response to Injury

Repair Processes of the Airway Epithelium, Edith Puchelle and Jean-Marie Zahm
Cell Matrix in Response to Airway Injury, Alison D. Cambrey, Juan S. Campa, and Geoffrey J. Laurent
Airway Remodeling in Disease, Jean Bosquet, Pascal Chanez, François-Bernard Michel, Philippe Godard, Françoise Capony, and Antonio Maurizio Vignola
Bronchiectasis: Model of Subversion of Respiratory Host Defenses into Inflammatory Disease, Peter Cole
Heat Shock Proteins in the Cell Defense Mechanisms of the Lung, Constance Barazzone, Pandora Christie, and Barbara S. Polla

Toxic Chemicals

Airway Inflammation in Isocyanate-Induced Asthma, L. M. Fabbri, Marina Saetta, Piero Maestrelli, and Cristina Mapp
Cigarette Smoke-Induced Damage of Airway Mucosa, Peter Key Jeffery
Role of Free Radicals in Airways Injury, Annick Clement and Bruno Housset
Models for Studying Airways Response to Environmental Injury, Michael L. Russell and James D. Crapo

Infectious Agents and the Airway

Changes in Airways Structure and Function After Viral infection, David B. Jacoby
Bacterial Infection and Airway Epithelium, Philippe Roussel, Geneviève Lamblin, and Reuben Ramphal
Changes in Airway Structure After Airway Infection, Dominique Gaillard and Maria Christina Plotkowski