Overcoming steroid insensitivity in respiratory disease
By: edited by Ian M. Adcock and K. Fan Chung.
Contributors: Adcock, Ian; Chung, K. Fan, 1951-
Publisher: J. Wiley; Wiley
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chichester, West Sussex; Hoboken, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780470058084
Subjects: Respiratory organs -- Diseases -- Chemotherapy; Steroid drugs; Drug resistance; Respiratory Tract Diseases -- drug therapy; Adrenal Cortex Hormones -- therapeutic use; Drug Resistance; Glucocorticoids -- therapeutic use
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Molecular mechanisms of GR action / Pankaj Bhavsar and Ian M. Adcock; title: Side effects of topical and oral glucocorticoids / Heike Schocke, Khusru Asadullah, Wolf-Dietrich Docke; title: Glucocorticoid receptor subtypes and steroid sensitivity / Robert H. Oakley and John A. Cidlowski; title: Dissociated glucocorticoids / Ian M. Adcock; title: Generalised glucocorticoid insensitivity : clinical phenotype and molecular mechanisms / Evangelia Charmandari, Tomoshige Kino, and George P. Chrousos; title: Corticosteroid responsiveness in asthma : clinical aspects / K. Fan Chung; title: Glucocorticoid insensitive asthma : molecular mechanisms / John W. Bloom; title: Cigarette smoke, oxidative stress, and corticosteroid responsiveness / Irfan Rahman and David Adenuga; title: Regulation of glucocorticoid sensitivity by macrophage migration inhibitory factor / Eric F. Morand; title: Steroid sparing strategies : long-acting inhaled 2-agonists / Anna Miller-Larsson and Olof Selroos; title: Steroid sparing strategies : other combinations / Gaetano Caramori, Kazuhiro Ito, and Alberto Papi; title: Kinases as anti-inflammatory targets for respiratory disease / Iain Kilty; title: Pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic factors and steroid sensitivity / Günther Hochhaus; title: Overcoming steroid insensitivity / Ian M. Adcock and K. Fan Chung.