Bioengineering Aspects in the Design of Gas Exchangers: Comparative Evolutionary, Morphological, Functional, and Molecular Perspectives - Softcover

Maina, John N. N.

 
9783642441332: Bioengineering Aspects in the Design of Gas Exchangers: Comparative Evolutionary, Morphological, Functional, and Molecular Perspectives
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ISBN 10: 3642441335 ISBN 13: 9783642441332
Verlag: Springer, 2014

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This book encapsulates over three decades of the author’s work on comparative functional respiratory morphology. It provides insights into the mechanism(s) by which respiratory means and processes originated and advanced to their modern states. Pertinent cross-disciplinary details and facts have been integrated and reexamined in order to arrive at more robust answers to questions regarding the basis of the functional designs of gas exchangers. The utilization of oxygen for energy production is an ancient process, the development and progression of which were underpinned by dynamic events in the biological, physical, and chemical worlds. Many books that have broached the subject of comparative functional respiratory biology have only described the form and function of the ‘end-product,’ the gas exchanger; they have scarcely delved into the factors and the conditions that motivated and steered the development from primeval to modern respiratory means and processes. This book addresses and answers broad questions concerning the critical synthesis of multidisciplinary data, and clarifies previously cryptic aspects of comparative respiratory biology.

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Achieving a BVM from the University of Nairobi (Kenya) and PhD and DVSc from the University of Liverpool (UK), John N. Maina has served as a professor of veterinary anatomy at the University of Nairobi and of human anatomy at the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa). He currently holds a position of Research Professor of Zoology at the University of Johannesburg. He has extensively comparatively investigated the functional designs of gas exchangers, mainly the lung-air sac system of birds and the bronchioalveolar lung of bats (Chiroptera). He has considerably published on the subject.

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This book encapsulates over three decades of the author’s work on comparative functional respiratory morphology. It provides insights into the mechanism(s) by which respiratory means and processes originated and advanced to their modern states. Pertinent cross-disciplinary details and facts have been integrated and reexamined in order to arrive at more robust answers to questions regarding the basis of the functional designs of gas exchangers. The utilization of oxygen for energy production is an ancient process, the development and progression of which were underpinned by dynamic events in the biological, physical, and chemical worlds. Many books that have broached the subject of comparative functional respiratory biology have only described the form and function of the ‘end-product,’ the gas exchanger; they have scarcely delved into the factors and the conditions that motivated and steered the development from primeval to modern respiratory means and processes. This book addresses and answers broad questions concerning the critical synthesis of multidisciplinary data, and clarifies previously cryptic aspects of comparative respiratory biology.

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Verlag
Springer
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3642441335
ISBN 13 
9783642441332
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Anzahl der Seiten
344
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