Pharmacology and therapeutics of airway diseases
By: edited by Kian Fan Chung, Peter J. Barnes.
Contributors: Chung, K. Fan, 1951-; Barnes, Peter J., 1946-
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Lung biology in health and disease -- 234; Lung biology in health and disease -- v. 234.
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 453
ISBN-13: 9781420070002
Subjects: Respiratory organs -- Pathophysiology; Respiratory organs -- Effect of drugs on; Respiratory organs -- Diseases -- Molecular aspects; Lung Diseases, Obstructive -- drug therapy; Anti-Asthmatic Agents -- therapeutic use
Other titles: Pharmacology of the respiratory tract.
Notes: Rev. ed. of: Pharmacology of the respiratory tract / edited by K. Fan Chung, Peter J. Barnes. c1993.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Principles of airway pharmacology and therapeutics / Peter J. Barnes; title: Clinical trials in asthma and COPD : trial designs, clinical endpoints, and biomarkers / Trevor T. Hansel ... [et al.]; title: Assessment of responses of the airways to therapeutic agents / John D. Brannan and Paul M. O'Byrne; title: Pharmacogenetics and pharmacogenomics of airways disease / Youming Zhang, William Cookson, and Miriam Moffatt; title: Delivery of drugs to the airways / Omar S. Usmani; title: Inhaled corticosteroids in airways disease / Ian M. Adcock, Kian Fan Chung, and Gaetano Caramori; title: Bronchodilator therapy of airways diseases / James F. Donohue and Jill Ohar; title: Anti-mediator therapy / Neil C. Thomson; title: Antiallergic approaches in airway disease / Chris J. Corrigan; title: New anti-inflammatory treatments for asthma and COPD / Kian Fan Chung; title: Airway wall remodelling as a concept for airway disease therapeutics / E. Haydn Walters, Davis P. Johns, and Chris Ward; title: Acute exacerbations of COPD / J.A. Wedizcha and J.R. Hurst; title: Treatment of stable COPD / Stephen I. Rennard, William Pease, and Peter J. Barnes; title: Management of chronic asthma in adults / Kian Fan Chung; title: Exacerbations of asthma in adults / Neil Barnes and Sophie G. Fuika; title: Pharmacology and therapeutics of cough / Alyn H. Morice.