This research-level reference provides a review of the morphological techniques that have become a primary method of anatomical study correlating structure and function in lung physiology and pathology. Detailing the evolution of anatomy as a research discipline, it explores general structural techniques such as fixation, microscopy, morphometry, histochemistry, developmental methods, and airway casting; covers procedures for correlating structure and function including analysis of casts, cell culture, tracers, mucus gland isolation, and autoradiography; and describes methods for the induction of selected specific experimental models, emphasizing experimental pneumoconioses but including carcinogenesis, microsurgery, acute alveolar injury, and vascular and pleural pathology. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
This research-level reference provides a review of the morphological techniques that have become a primary method of anatomical study correlating structure and function in lung physiology and pathology. Detailing the evolution of anatomy as a research discipline, it explores general structural techn