Discusses the characteristics and impact of the remodeling process on airway function and clinical disease expression within the airway in asthma. This book covers pharmacological therapies and targets relevant to regulating the remodeling process. It is for physiologists; pneumologists; allergists; pharmacologists; and others.

Improving lung function and quality of life by reducing the need for emergency care, hospital admissions, and systemic steroid administration, "Airway Remodeling" is a superb reference for pulmonologists and respiratory system specialists; physiologists; pneumologists; allergists; pharmacologists; molecular, cellular, and lung biologists; and graduate and medical school students in these disciplines.

What Does Airway Remodeling Mean? Its Relevance
to AsthmaJean Bousquet and Antonio Maurizio VignolaHow Can We Assess Airway Remodeling Using Imaging?Dany Jaffuel, Fabrice Jean Paganin, and Jean BousquetThe Use of Morphometry to
Assess Airway Wall Remodeling in AsthmaNeil G. Carroll and Alan Lloyd JamesPhysiological Consequences of Lung Remodeling in AsthmaBj/rn JonsonConsequences of Airway Remodeling to the PatientTari HaahtelaSignaling Mechanisms That Regulate Airway Smooth Muscle Cell Function and GrowthAili L. Lazaar and Reynold A. Panettieri, Jr.The Bronchial Vessels in Airway
RemodelingJohn W. Wilson and Xun LiThe Extracellular Matrix
of the Airways and Bronchial AsthmaWilliam R. RocheRole of the Airway Nervous System in Airway RemodelingTony R. Bai and Darryl A. KnightThe Influence of Pharmacological Therapy on Airway Remodeling in AsthmaPeter H. HowarthThe Human Eosinophil and Its Role in Airway RemodelingPer VengeRole of Macrophages in Airway Remodeling in Asthma: Future Therapeutic TargetAntonio Maurizio Vignola, Pascal Chanez, Liboria Siena,
Rosalia Gagliardo, Gisele Mautino, Giovanni Bonsignore, Philippe Godard, and Jean BousquetAirway Smooth Muscle as a Target for Novel Antiasthma Drugs Acting on Airway Wall RemodelingAlastair G. StewartGrowth Factor-Extracellular Matrix Interactions in Bronchial Tissue in AsthmaJanis K. ShuteIs There an Animal Model of Airway Remodeling?Johan C. Kips, Els Palmans, Nele Vanacker, and Romain A. PauwelsFuture Directions
in Airway RemodelingJohn W. Wilson and Peter H. Howarth