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Silke Meiners, PhD is a Research Group Leader from the Comprehensive Pneumology Center in Munich.
Claude Jourdan Le Saux, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine Division of Cardiology/Pulmonary and Critical Care, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, as well as a faculty member of the Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies Nathan Shock Aging Center of Excellence and Department of Cellular and Structural Biology.
Chapter 1:Telomerase Function in Aging Calado RT (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA. calador@nhlbi.nih.gov)
Chapter 2:Immunosenescence in Infection(mainly focusing on CD8T cell responses)Blackman MA (SourceTrudeau Institute, 154 Algonquin Ave, Saranac Lake, NY 12983, USA. mblackman@trudeauinstitute.org)Or :Age-related changes in immune function: effect on airway inflammation.Busse PJ (Division of Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA. paula.busse@mssm.edu)
Chapter 3:Oxidants and metabolism Finkel T (Center for Molecular Medicine, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA, finkelt@nih.gov)
Chapter 4:Protein quality control in aging Meiners S (Comprehensive Penumology Center, Helmholtz Center Munich, Max-Lebsche Platz 31, 81377 Munich, Germany, silke.meiners@helmholtz-muechen.de)
Chapter 5:Signaling networks in agingBrunet A (Department of Genetics, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA, anne.brunet@stanford.edu)
Chapter 6:Senescence in the lungLesaux Jordan C (Division of Cardiology, UT Health Science Center, San Antonio, MC 7872, USA, lesaux@uthscsa.edu)Section 2: How to investigate aging in the lung
This shorter section will give an overview on the available animal models for aging and on studying gene expression. It also reviews analysis of lung function in mice models of age-related lung diseases.
Chapter 7:Mouse models to study aging Richardson A (Department of Cellular and Structural Biology, Barshop Center for Longevity and Aging Studies, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, 78229, USA. richardsona@uthscsa.edu)
Chapter 8:Profiling candidates of agingGeorge A. Garinis (Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, FORTH, Vassilika Vouton, P.O.Box 1385, GR 711 10 Heraklion, Crete, Greece)
Chapter 9:Use of animal models to explore lung aging Neptune ER (Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, eneptune@jhmi.edu)
Section 3: The aging lung This section will give an overview on the development and on the physiological aging of the lung. It will also cover lung diseases that have been associated with premature aging of the lung.
Chapter 10:Development and physiological aging of the lungPinkerton KE (Center for Health and the Environment, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA, kepinkerton@ucdavis.edu)
Chapter 11:Premature aging of the damaged infant lungFilippone M or Baraldi E (E. Baraldi, Dept of Paediatrics, Via Giustiniani 3, 35128 Padova, Italy, E-mail: baraldi@pediatria.unipd.it)
(Chapter 12:Age-related alterations in lung cancerMalcolm C. Pike ???He is at the Memorial Sloan-Ketteringhttp://www.mskcc.org/news/magazine/july-2009/malcolm-c-pike-joins-msk-epidemiology-service)
Chapter 13:Premature aging in IPFRojas M (Interstitial Lung Diseases at the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, PA 15213; rojasm@upmc.edu)
Chapter 14:Lung infections and agingMeyer KC (Department of Medicine, K4/930 Clinical Sciences Center, University of Wisconsin Medical School, 600 Highland Avenue, Madison, WI 53792-9988, USA. kcm@medicine.wisc.edu)
Chapter 14:COPD as a disease of premature agingSerge Adnot (INSERM U955, Hôpital Henri Mondor, AP-HP, Créteil, France, serge.adnot@inserm.fr)
Chapter 15:Demography of AgingDavid E. Bloom Harvard University (http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/pgda/)
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