Environmental Stressors in Health and Disease

ISBN-13: 9780824705305 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 520 str.

Jurgen Fuchs; Lester Packer; Fuchs Fuchs

Opis

This volume illustrates the impact of environmental oxidants on the tissues of the eyes, lungs and skin, as well as on the immune system - highlighting common illnesses, injuries and pathologies induced by pro-oxidant environmental xenobiotics such as inflammation, immune response, signal transduction, regulation of gene expression, and carcinogenesis. It provides clinical presentations and discusses the effects of environmental oxidants on target organs.

O autorze

Jurgen Fuchs is Research Associate and clinical faculty member, Department of Dermatology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany. The author of approximately 200 published articles and the coeditor of Lipoic Acid in Health and Disease, Oxidative Stress in Dermatology, Vitamin C in Health and Disease, and Vitamin E in Health and Disease (all titles, Marcel Dekker, Inc.), he received the Ph.D. degree (1985) in biology and the M.D. degree (1986) from the University of Frankfurt, Germany. Lester Packer is an Adjunct Professor of Molecular Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Southern California School of Pharmacy, Los Angeles. The recipient of the Optolind Skin Research Prize 2000, he is the author, coauthor, editor, or coeditor of over 700 journal articles, book chapters, and books, including Antioxidants in Diabetes Management, Biothiols in Health and Disease, Flavonoids in Health and Disease, Free Radicals in Brain Pathophysiology, the Handbook of Antioxidants, the Handbook of Synthetic Antioxidants, Lipoic Acid in Health and Disease, Nutraceuticals in Health and Disease Prevention, Oxidative Stress in Dermatology, Redox Regulation in Cell Signaling and Its Clinical Application, Retinoids, Understanding the Process of Aging, Vitamin C in Health and Disease, and Vitamin E in Health and Disease (all titles, Marcel Dekker, Inc.). Dr. Packer received the B.S. (1951) and M.S. (1952) degrees in biology and chemistry from Brooklyn College, New York, and the Ph.D. degree (1956) in microbiology and biochemistry from Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.