Micro Aerosol (eBook)

Front Cover 1
Microaerosols: Physiology Pharmacology Therapeutics 4
Copyright Page 5
Table of Contents 10
Dedication 6
Foreword 8
Chapter I. Production of Liquid and Solid Micromicellar Aerosols 14
Chapter II. Sampling, Numbering, and Sizing Aerosol Particles 36
Chapter Ill. Pulmonary Penetration of Aerosols. Biological Importance of Submicronic Particles 43
Chapter IV. Importance of Particle Size for Therapeutic Aerosol Efficiency 50
Chapter V. Deposition of Air-Borne Particles at Various Levels of the Respiratory Tract 71
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Chapter VII. Airway Constriction and Dilation with Aerosols. Action of Antagonistic Aerosols on Respiration 106
Chapter VIII. Gaseous Exchanges after Breathing Dilating and Constricting Aerosols 116
Chapter IX. Effects of Pharmacological (Constricting and Dilating) Aerosols and of Air-Borne Insoluble Particulate Matter upon the Mechanics of Breathing and the Lung Volumes in Normal Subjects and in Patients 131
Chapter X. Influence of Pharmacological or Dust Aerosols upon Various Clinical and Functional Respiratory Tests 147
Chapter XI. Comparative Study of Some Methods Used for Determining Constriction and Dilation of the Airways after Administering Pharmacological or Dust Aerosols. Sensitivity of the Plethysmographic Method 163
Chapter XII. Effects of Pharmacological or Dust Aerosols upon Guinea Pigs' Excised Lungs 176
Chapter XIII. Comparative Action of Atropine and of Sympathomimetic Drugs upon the Constricting Effects of Parasympathomimetic Substances 194
Chapter XIV. Participation of the Alveolar Spaces in Dilation and Constriction of the Lungs 209
Chapter XV. Influence of Constricting and Dilating Microaerosols on "Pressure-Volume" Curves of Isolated Atelectatic Rats' Lungs 227
Chapter XVI. Degree of Airway Dilation in Man and of Pulmonary Expansion in Excised Lungs According to the Number of Breaths of Sympathomimetic Microaerosols 236
Chapter XVII. Effects of Sympathomimetic Aerosols upon the Respiratory Reflexes Induced by Dusting the Supraglottic Airways in the Dog 249
Chapter XVIII. Collective Inhalation of Dilating Aerosols 261
Chapter XIX. Preparing Solutions for Airwaydilating Aerosols 271
Chapter XX. Use of Aerosols in Respiratory Diseases 273
A. Use of Dilating Aerosols in Asthma 273
B. Use of Antihistaminic Aerosols on Dyspneic Patients 278
C. Use of Antibiotic Aerosols in Respiratory Diseases 279
D. Aerosols of Enzymatic Substances, Used as Expectorants 283
E. Uses of Liquid Aerosols in Other Pathological Conditions 286
Chapter XXI. Systemic Effects of Liquid Aerosols 289
Chapter XXII. Summary 299
Bibliography 304
Index 368