Inflammation in the Pathogenesis of Chronic Diseases [electronic resource] : The COX-2 Controversy /
Harris, Randall E.editor.
Discusses the role of inflammation in the pathogenesis of major chronic diseases and the controversy regarding risk versus benefit of selective cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) inhibitors. This volume is intended for scientists in medicine, epidemiology, pharmacology, molecular biology, and related fields.
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Discusses the role of inflammation in the pathogenesis of major chronic diseases and the controversy regarding risk versus benefit of selective cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) inhibitors. This volume is intended for scientists in medicine, epidemiology, pharmacology, molecular biology, and related fields.
Historical Perspectives -- Anti-Inflammatory Drugs in the 21st Century -- Inflammatory Mechanisms of Pathogenesis -- Nitric Oxide Synthase and Cyclooxygenase Interactions in Cartilage and Meniscus -- Obesity, Inflammation, and Vascular Disease -- Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) and the Inflammogenesis of Cancer -- Role of COX-2 in Inflammatory and Degenerative Brain Diseases -- Inflammation and Cardiovascular Disease: The Coxib Controversy -- Cardiovascular Effects of the Selective Cyclooxygenase-2 Inhibitors -- COX-2 Inhibitors And Cardiovascular Risk -- A Biological Rationale for the Cardiotoxic Effects of Rofecoxib -- Cox-2 Blockade in Cancer Prevention and Therapy -- Cancer Chemoprevention by Cyclooxygenase 2 (COX-2) Blockade -- Strategies for Colon Cancer Prevention -- Inflammation and Neurodegenerative Disease -- NSAIDs for the Chemoprevention of Alzheimer's Disease -- Inflammation in parkinson's disease -- Nutrition, Inflammation and Chronic Disease -- Essential Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids, Inflammation, Atherosclerosis and Cardiovascular Diseases -- Nutritional Intervention in Brain Aging.
Pharmacology.
Cancer research.
Pathology.
Cardiology.
Neurology .
Immunology.
Pharmacology/Toxicology.
Cancer Research.
Pathology.
Cardiology.
Neurology.
Immunology.
Sub-cellular biochemistry