PHYL 4504 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Respiratory Epithelium, Otitis Media, Diesel Exhaust
6 Jan 2021
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Phyl 4504 lecture 15 october 28, 2020 environmental and workplace lung diseases. List the major components, and sources of, air pollution. Provide examples of how air pollution may impact human respiratory health: recognize potential ways that climate change can exacerbate respiratory health. List reasons why cigarette smoking is bad for human health: be able to give examples of occupational lung diseases and to differentiate between those that induce hypersensitivity. Pneumonitis and those that induce pneumoconiosis: recognise the causes of, and key pathological findings seen in, coal workers" lung and silicosis. Environmental pollutants: air pollution, cigarette smoke, potential role of climate change, occupational lung diseases, hypersensitivity pneumonitis (hp, pneumoconiosis, including, coal worker"s pneumoconiosis. Silicosis: asbestos-related disease, be able to the key features in a proposed mechanism to explain how asbestosis develops. Identify other pulmonary diseases caused by asbestos exposure. Air pollution: atmospheric pollutants are important factors in the development of pulmonary diseases, such as chronic bronchitis, emphysema, asthma and lung cancer.
